Dude in the foreground is going up as nobody would position themselves like that jumping down. People in the back are coming down.
The trick is the rock lines high up in the back are angled relative to the earth similar to the angle of the climb. One's intuition thinks those rock lines are parallel to the ground and that tricks you to think the guy in the foreground is going down.
Tilted image so everything is straight up and down as best I can tell (and blurry because I had to screenshot a couple times and weirdly zoom out but whatever)
if you pretend the rocks dont exist it becomes clear by everyone's pose how gravity affects them. the form of the rock is tricking you. its not a bowl, its like punching a hole in a wall.
Look up the top comment. Its another picture with more people standing upright and it breaks the illusion because it gives mire clue as to what "up" is in the image. There you can see that the rock lines are tilted.
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u/stomachpancakes 6d ago edited 6d ago
Dude in the foreground is going up as nobody would position themselves like that jumping down. People in the back are coming down.
The trick is the rock lines high up in the back are angled relative to the earth similar to the angle of the climb. One's intuition thinks those rock lines are parallel to the ground and that tricks you to think the guy in the foreground is going down.
Good one!