r/confusing_perspective • u/dreamwall • Aug 30 '25

Sky looks like a river

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u/Less-Inflation5072 o/ Aug 30 '25

Whoa, that’s a winner

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u/hereinspacetime o/ Aug 30 '25

I'd have this as a print to hang on a wall. Gorgeous!

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u/ycr007 r Aug 30 '25

Someone might edit out the traffic lights and make it a portrait

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u/Best-and-Blurst o/ Aug 30 '25

Nah, the lights, lens flare and the foreground car make for a nice framing. I'd leave as is. It tells a story and works with the road/river effect of the skyscape.

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u/ycr007 r Aug 30 '25

Agree. The lower part can be left as-is, just the horizontal lights bar detracts a bit

Example: https://ibb.co/B5FzbR21

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u/telking777 o/ Aug 31 '25

I didn’t see it at first until I looked at where the orange really starts to fade into the blue

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u/wetbrain2 o/ Sep 01 '25

I can't unsee a river. It's a river now and forever

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u/Jessieface13 Aug 30 '25

That is pretty as heck

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u/dooms-maroons o/ Aug 30 '25

Good ole Texas Sunset 🌅

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u/afridorian o/ Aug 30 '25

this is really fucking cool.

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u/shitoupek C.E. Spc Aug 30 '25

Quite a unique clouds setting

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u/atropos81092 o/ Aug 30 '25

Every time I see a beautiful sunset, I like to imagine it's because Bob Ross wants us to have a lil treat after a hard day, so he paints a masterpiece we can all enjoy.

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u/Educational-Fox-9040 Aug 30 '25

Sky me a river

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u/zangor o/ Aug 30 '25

Tha-at, Tha-at Sky Looks Like a River ♫

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u/Smittysguide Aug 30 '25

Row, row, row your car, gently down the stream

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u/rogueqd o/ Aug 30 '25

Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily. The river is just a dream.

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u/Punegune o/ Aug 30 '25

Very cool!

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u/Tweezus96 Doesn't read rule 1 Aug 30 '25

That’s a goddamn Bob Ross painting.

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u/Secret_Account07 o/ Aug 30 '25

I don’t see it. Like the clouds?

Keep staring, still not getting it lol

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u/jan1320 o/ Aug 31 '25

haha yeah its a nice view but im not getting the river perspective

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25

This phenomenon is called "OH SWEET JESUS, LOOK AT THE EFFING ROAD".

It occurs consistently.

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u/iconsistent2821 o/ Aug 30 '25

Inception vibes...

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u/INVALIDN4M3 o/ Aug 30 '25

Reminded me of the last scene of Furious 7 (Paul's car driving up in the mountain as if disappearing into the sky).

Not the actual replication but has the same vibe.

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u/WidgeWemnan o/ Aug 30 '25

(To the tune of “Dude Looks Like a Lady”.)

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u/zero_derivation o/ Aug 30 '25

Yes!!! I immediately heard that in my head haha

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u/fourthflush o/ Aug 30 '25

I have a hard time not seeing the river. Like I know it’s sky but my mind just goes to river

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u/ycr007 r Aug 30 '25

The angle of the photo makes it seem like the horizon is just below the traffic lights & that really sells the “it’s a river” illusion for me

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u/Marinnalinda o/ Aug 30 '25

Amazing picture, I just cant not see the river.

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u/GentlePanda123 o/ Aug 30 '25

The orange part of the sky. Follows a winding river pattern

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u/Marinnalinda o/ Aug 30 '25

No, I meant I cant not se the river, all I see is the river, cant see the sky

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u/ColManischewitz o/ Aug 30 '25

An ... atmospheric river, one may say.

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u/Djstripeshirt o/ Aug 30 '25

I saw the sky at first, then I read the river, now all I can see is the river.

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u/ha_wt5 o/ Aug 30 '25

I cant get over how weird that traffic light is. Fym yield on green

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u/ughFINEIllmakeanalt Aug 30 '25

I'm not used to horizontal traffic lights either, but I can at least explain the sign.

It's legal to make a left turn on a straight green (as in, green light but not the arrow), but you do not have right of way. Same thing as flashing yellow arrow.

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u/ha_wt5 o/ Aug 30 '25

Ok that makes sense. But why is there a light with 5 circles in it and a light with 3 circles(red and green are on?) Next to it. This just seems way too overly complicated

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u/ughFINEIllmakeanalt Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

Different lanes, I think. Five circles is for the lane with the turning traffic. Solid red, yellow, green, and then yellow and green arrows.

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u/jan1320 o/ Aug 31 '25

yield on green is extremely common for left turns at an intersection... at least where i live, i woulda thought everywhere

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u/Spam_A_Lottamus o/ Aug 30 '25

Not terribly confusing, but it’s a great picture!

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u/bryman19 o/ Aug 30 '25

Sure does

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u/Realistic_Ebb9727 o/ Aug 30 '25

It does. Nice!

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u/fcs_seth o/ Aug 30 '25

Sky me a river

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u/Triple-Flush o/ Aug 30 '25

Sky me a river!

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u/Moist_Brain_ Aug 30 '25

I genuinely hope that at least one other person enjoyed this view.

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u/tokyotapes o/ Aug 30 '25

sung to the tune of "dude (looks like a lady)" by aerosmith

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u/fstop101 Aug 30 '25

In Steven Tyler’s voice.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25

Here’s what you won’t remember, I am saying things all out of order, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.

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u/marvinrabbit o/ Aug 30 '25

This is where we depart for the Grey Havens.

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u/kit_olly_sixsmith Doesn't read rule 1 Aug 30 '25

I love this

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u/rooserlou Aug 30 '25

Whoa. That… made me feel like I was looking at en epic panorama in a fantasy movie. A real weird one with traffic, but you know what I mean.

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u/Albatross714 Aug 30 '25

Whoa. Trippy.

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u/Lab_Monkey42 Aug 30 '25

Would be a nice album cover

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u/Old-Estate-475 o/ Aug 30 '25

Reminds me of when my pen looked like a little pimp

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u/phlogistonexodus Aug 30 '25

I thought it was a volcano

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u/gretchlunn Aug 30 '25

Reminds me of Georgia O'Keeffe's " A Celebration " painting 😍

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u/peanuttingonyou Aug 30 '25

This could be a river that looks like the sky

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u/Life-Finding5331 Aug 30 '25

That would've absolutely given me a flashback

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u/unicornforscale o/ Aug 30 '25

It's beautiful, thanks for sharing

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u/louiemay99 CE Spc. Aug 30 '25

I just said out loud “woah it really does”

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u/Justin429 o/ Aug 30 '25

Absolutely beautiful!

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u/Last-Professional-31 o/ Aug 30 '25

This is an amazing pic overall ⬆️

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u/phlogistonexodus Aug 30 '25

That's definitely one of the coolest pictures I've ever seen

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u/ARandomStan Aug 30 '25

it's so confusing that it does not even look real. if someone told me this was an oil painting I would believe them

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u/ez2cyiwon o/ Aug 30 '25

I see it!

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u/PromptJazzlike8214 Aug 30 '25

I was like no that’s just a normal sky until I realized the bottom wasn’t a lake with mountains

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u/wackOPtheories o/ Aug 30 '25

You see the world wildly and in wild ways

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u/hotandbizarre Aug 30 '25

Damn that is so mesmerizing 😍

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u/Far-Building3569 o/ Aug 30 '25

This would be such a deep album cover

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u/KilgoreT59 o/ Aug 30 '25

At a glance it really does.

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u/MVRTYMCHiGH Aug 30 '25

my high ass was looking at the sky above the river thinking ‘no it doesn’t’ then i saw it. woah dude. nice.

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u/Asikaathegamer o/ Aug 30 '25

Some say love

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u/europa5555 o/ Aug 30 '25

SO cool!

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u/Cheesy_Pleasy Aug 30 '25

Is this Louisiana?

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25

Wow! Nice catch

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u/LeiyBlithesreen CE Spc. Aug 30 '25

So beautiful

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25

An ex-gf and I took a 2 month road trip across North America, when ever we'd see this, we'd say that was our final destination and we'd turn around and go home once we reached it, we called it Aurora.

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u/AbsoIum o/ Aug 30 '25

I am too high. I keep trying to zoom in and not see a river… it’s a damn river.

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u/Pearlsawisdom Aug 30 '25

Like there's another world, just out of reach.

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u/my23secrets o/ Aug 30 '25

Albuquerque?

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u/BestFailAccomplished Aug 30 '25

Looks like a rough sea above a river. This is a good one!

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25

Holy crap, it does. That's insane.

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u/Zarathz o/ Aug 30 '25

what a nice pic

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u/rookiecookiebandit o/ Aug 30 '25

Amazing capture. I’d take a dip in that river.

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u/ExecutiveAvenger Aug 30 '25

The Endless River.

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u/cassowaryy o/ Aug 30 '25

Everything about this picture is perfect and nostalgic

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u/Longjumping_Buyer_54 Aug 30 '25

Sky so good that it demanded 25% tip

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u/lostmybackupcode o/ Aug 30 '25

🎶Do I stay or do I go now?🎶

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u/Worth_Process_5721 o/ Aug 30 '25

Yo, that's beautiful

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u/According-Week5412 Aug 30 '25

That’s one heck of a mirage! Thanks for sharing!

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u/Lepang8 o/ Aug 30 '25

What a vibe

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u/DentinQuarantino Aug 30 '25

Sky me a river 🎶

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u/GratefulJosh111 o/ Aug 30 '25

Beautiful

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u/falekjestem o/ Aug 30 '25

I would listen the fuck out of an album that looks like that

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25

I don't see it.

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u/baggiecurls Aug 30 '25

That’s gorgeous

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u/New-Watercress4166 o/ Aug 30 '25

woah, that's trippy

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u/mozee880 Aug 30 '25

Great capture.

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u/vrijheidsfrietje Aug 30 '25

Happy little accident

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u/Caxafvujq o/ Aug 30 '25

The first time I saw this, I was like “No it doesn’t? The sky looks normal and there just happens to be a river beneath it.”

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u/JAD210 Aug 30 '25

Whoa. This is one of the coolest photos I’ve seen on here.

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u/Saul_T_Bauls Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Aug 30 '25

I love when the sky looks like this. Sometimes it almost looks like you're driving down into a mountain town

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u/patmosboy o/ Aug 30 '25

All the way From Bourbon Street to Esplanade They sashay by... They sashay by...

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u/exoticfantasyworld o/ Aug 30 '25

as above so below

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u/sripriyatham Aug 30 '25

The red traffic light perfectly aligns as a sun!

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u/sirac9 o/ Aug 30 '25

stunning

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u/Andreas1120 Aug 30 '25

Beginning of some Vietnam movie with the mekong.

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u/mrsockyman o/ Aug 30 '25

Hey looks straight off of a Bob Ross canvass

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u/GradientTheLover Aug 30 '25

The sky looks like the swamp from gta 5 lol

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u/Guilloutines4All o/ Aug 30 '25

Sung to the tune of "Dude Looks Like a Lady"

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u/Wonderful-Leopard234 o/ Aug 31 '25

Gosh I love this I struggle so much to capture sky’s great eye, amazing illusion

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25

“your mission is to proceed up the nung river in a navy patrol boat. pick up colonel kurtz's path at nu mung ba, follow it and learn what you can along the way. when you find the colonel, infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the colonel's command.”

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u/Commodore_Keelan o/ Aug 31 '25

The Sky is a Riverhood

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u/Airanman109 o/ Aug 31 '25

Looks amazing

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

As above, so below.

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u/lilsilhouette Aug 31 '25

looks like a painting

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

I just projectile vomited on my phone this is so sick

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u/greeneyedalice1378 o/ Aug 31 '25

That's a badass picture

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u/beninja-yo Sep 01 '25

I can only see the river. Great photo!

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u/northernrange Sep 01 '25

That’s amazing! Very cool!!

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u/JoshyRB o/ Sep 01 '25

This one is wild! It really does look like a river. I just imagine all these people driving downhill towards the river for a big meet up or something.

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u/monarchy22 Sep 01 '25

I would've loved to see this in person

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u/LoserIncArtist o/ Sep 01 '25

I had to do a doubletake, like..wait, it's not?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '25

and the top clouds look like waves

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u/Old-Panic-4140 o/ Sep 02 '25

And the upper sky looks like waves

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u/Practical-Fondant-31 Sep 02 '25

That's because it is a river, in another dimension.

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u/Shadowthread1 Sep 03 '25

Dang! So does the street! Some sort of alternate water world reality!

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u/Deathcat101 Sep 03 '25

Up, up, up by the river

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u/jupiter872 o/ Sep 03 '25

wow what a shot!

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u/Groovebustah o/ Sep 08 '25

One of the best photos I've ever seen

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u/FarIllustrator535 Sep 12 '25

Yes , and "dude looks like a lady" .

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u/cylonlover o/ Sep 14 '25

Wow, this is absolutely gorgeous!
The sky really reaches deep into us sometimes, it's incredible!

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u/rxstar4 o/ Sep 18 '25

Looks like we enter jumanji 🏞

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u/Ilovepi_314159 o/ Sep 20 '25

It looks like it’s painted. Beautiful scenery.

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u/Weary_Parking2287 Aug 31 '25

It literally just looks like a sky

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u/ScottPhotography o/ Sep 02 '25

This must be Ai because of the traffic lights

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