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I know you have clicked because you were curious what kind of Optical Illusion I want to show, maybe it's one you haven't already seen 😀

Waterfalls and optical Illusions

Waterfalls and optical Illusions
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But you have to be patient, because at first I want to show you a little waterfall, or better said the bottom of a waterfall which I have photographed a couple of weeks ago in the Vintgar Gorge in Slovenia.

Vintgar Gorge

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This image is my contribution to this week's PhotoFeed Contest and the theme of the week is Long Exposure Photography: Long Exposure Photography.

But now to the promised Optical Illusions: Well, maybe the images are only looking weird in my eyes and you might say "hey, these are just normal waterfall photos".

About 4 months ago I have been in Slovenia and at the beginning of the Radovna Valley, a beautiful valley between Bled and Mojstrana, there's a little river that falls down a couple of metres. The waterfall is man made and was looking nice enough for me to stop and to take a few photos.

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When I opened the photos at home I thought I had done something wrong when I have taken the images because the tree trunks, or maybe these have once been wooden posts, looked as if they wouldn't belong to the image - somehow it was a kind of 3D look or as if the posts were swiming on the water or even hovering over the water.

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Of course it was all completely normal: the water was moving and blurry, while the posts were still and sharp. But have a closer look at the images: doesn't it look like the posts are hovering over the water? There's even a shadow below the left post on the ground.

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So, now please tell me, don't these photos look weird?

So much for the optical Illusions, and now, at the end of this post I want to show you two more photos I have taken that morningfrom this little waterfall. It was about sunrise time and there was already a light morning colour shine to see on the water.

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The first photos shows another old rotten tree trunk or wooden post standing alone in the flowing water, and in the second one, the sun was just rising a little higher and lit the waterfall partly quite nice.

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That's all for today, my friends. I hope you like my photos and the "Illusions" :)
Wishing you a wonderful weekend 🌞

Information

Vintgar Gorge Website

All photos were taken with the Canon EOS R and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon EF 16-35mm 1:4 L IS USM, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 L STM, SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM, Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6,3 DG OS HSM C.
If you are interested in the image data, I leave all EXIF and IPTC information stored in the pictures.

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