This Bird Photo May Break Your Brain (And No, It Wasn't Photoshopped)

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This Bird Photo May Break Your Brain (And No, It Wasn’t Photoshopped)

APR 17, 2023 MICHAEL ZHANG



“Gap” by Kenichi Ohno.


This mind-bending photo of a bird is making the rounds on the internet, and people’s brains are having a hard time processing what exactly the photo shows. It is a real single-exposure photo, though, and not the result of Photoshop manipulation.

The photograph, titled “Gap,” was captured by a Japanese photographer named Kenichi Ohno from the Saitama Prefecture in the Kantō region of Honshu, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. Kenichi entered the photo in the 39th “Japanese Nature” photo contest put on by the The All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies (AJAPS), which boasts 10,000 members across Japan, and the photo was honored as a “Special Selection” winner.

Organized and sponsored by Sony’s marketing arm, the contest saw 14,727 photo entries from all across the island nation

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[Brother Buzz]

1. It took me a while to sort it out

The distant 'tree line' is really the waterline. I was fooled.

[Celerity]

5. yes, this a wall:

[Bucky]

7. Or a bridge pylon

Until I saw the ripples right in front of the bird's feet, I was quite discombobulated

[chia]

2. Brilliant photo!

[Solly Mack]

4. Cool

[Irish_Dem]

6. I don't understand what I am looking at.

[Bucky]

8. Look at the ripples right before the bird's legs

The orange bit of water is the reflection of a bridge base that reaches into the lake or river

[malthaussen]

9. That's some photograph.

Finding the precise angle where the reflection lines up perfectly with the wall must have taken some work.

-- Ma