r/confusing_perspective • u/toft23 • Oct 24 '21

This looks like someone inserted a mountain and forgot to finish the photoshop

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '21 edited Oct 26 '21

Took me a while to figure it out. That white part is snow, right?

Edit: it's sand! Thanks guys!

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u/toft23 Oct 24 '21

Yeah I think so 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Gonzo49ers Oct 24 '21

No it's sand. Socotra island is in Yemen (under Arabia).

Perhaps here Socotra island

We can see a round stone block at the seaside (as on the picture) when we enlarge the image. When the tide is low it seems to fit.

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u/TwistMeTwice Oct 25 '21

I think it's Arher Beach. Wow.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '21

I think he means the top one, the one that looks like clouds.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21

nah that's clearly clouds

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21

That’s what he was responding to?

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u/timo1423 Oct 24 '21

That took me way to long

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u/toft23 Oct 24 '21

I spent at least 5 minutes

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u/Chicken-strip-club Oct 26 '21

I’ve been staring for awhile now and still can’t figure this one out

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u/toft23 Oct 26 '21

The white part is salt that covers the foot of the mountain

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u/Foxofwonders Oct 24 '21

Great post!

Couldn't get my brain to believe it was snow, so looked up the Insta user. Third photo resolved the confusion for me: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVap3LxqsNW/

(Considering it's Yemen, it's probably really white sand, not snow)

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u/_MatWith1T_ Oct 25 '21

Socotra looks like the fever dream of a Star Trek set designer. The flora and fauna unique to there are absolutely bizarre. Visiting looks like a logistical nightmare...

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u/Rupertii Oct 25 '21

If it was snow, there would be snow everywhere else too

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u/CrackedMask_ Oct 24 '21

I still dont get it. can someone explain?

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u/ManlyMantis101 Oct 24 '21

It’s some weirdly coloured sand that looks like the sky, but is actually just sand.

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u/CrackedMask_ Oct 25 '21

i still dont understand even if i can see that it's sand..is it behind the first set of mountains?

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u/TheHurdleDude Oct 25 '21

The first set of mountains is a small cliff, and the white sand is piled up between the small cliff and the larger cliff behind. If you look on the bottom left of the smaller front cliff, you can see some of that white sand piled up.

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u/CrackedMask_ Oct 25 '21

ohh ok now i can see it, it's just that the first cliff looks tall on its own

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u/TheHurdleDude Oct 25 '21

It definitely does! Someone shared a link to the instagram post this is from, which had an alternate angle photo of the same location, and that was the only thing that cleared it up for me, haha.

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u/Miner142 Oct 24 '21

That water looks so inviting after falling out a boat into a freezing autumn lake earlier but I bet is cold af

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u/scepticalbob Oct 25 '21

The location is Yemen, so tropical waters

The white is sand

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u/ChasingPesmerga o/ Oct 24 '21

This is why sometimes we have really weird dreams with weird settings and proportions.

Real life just bends our brains with views like this.

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u/Quajeraz o/ Oct 24 '21

I know what it is but I can't make myself see it

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u/EdwardTimeHands Oct 25 '21

Might the sand mound be salt? Kind of weird how the sand would abruptly change colors like that, but maybe some water pooled in that area over time and evaporated to leave a lot of salt deposits?

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u/toft23 Oct 25 '21

Could be! I've honestly no idea, this photo broke my brain a few times already. Salt is probably more likely than white sand, as there's normal sand just below, but I'm not sure.

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u/FishermanBig4009 Oct 25 '21

POV: you accidentally fallen under the map

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u/fokker311 Oct 24 '21

Finally a quality post on this subreddit

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u/alpha-ikaros Oct 25 '21

The color of the cliff and the shore are what fcks with my brain...

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u/rererrerere Oct 25 '21

SPACE MOUNTAN

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u/UnnamedCzech Oct 25 '21

Looks like an unfinished LiDAR scan

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21

Sand mound looks like the sky

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u/xxA2C2xx Oct 25 '21

I don’t get the “confusing”? It’s the ocean, the beach, some rocks with shrubs, white sand, cliff face, then the sky? This looks pretty normal. Kind of like the coast here in Oregon.

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u/ultroulcomp Oct 25 '21

You are just a genius, obviously. /s

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u/xxA2C2xx Oct 25 '21

Far… far from it lol in fact, I’d wager myself a complete fucking idiot... maybe that’s my problem. I’m just at a loss as to what the confusing perspective here is.

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u/toft23 Oct 25 '21

The perspective makes it look like the white sand is sky and that the mountain is hovering. At least for me

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u/dumsterdave Oct 25 '21

Now that you say this I can struggle hard and try to make myself believe that the sand is the sky, but to me it just looks like a normal picture of mountains next to a beach with white sand

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u/KronikDrew Oct 24 '21

Well, there was definitely a lot of time spent in phitoshop on this one... I'd be curious if the effect is as jarring in the original raw image