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It appears as though whatever the articles are - books; boxes etc, are built up to form the skyscraper shadow. . . but on a back wall!
I thought the back boards were photograph boards just randomly placed there, not shadows. And the 'people' look far too small... either that is such a MASSIVE pile that it shouldn't be there because if it slides it's going to take out anyone in the vicinity, or those people are really really tiny... I agree, my eyes can't make sense of any sort of scale.
 
Oh - yes, just noticed that it states that they are Lego sets!
After having taken another look at it, I think the parts that appear to look like two back wall mirrors, are in fact two other doorways/into other rooms, and the 'skyscrapers' are shadows formed on the floor in the room.
 
Oh - yes, just noticed that it states that they are Lego sets!
After having taken another look at it, I think the parts that appear to look like two back wall mirrors, are in fact two other doorways/into other rooms, and the 'skyscrapers' are shadows formed on the floor in the room.
Well done. RAF need skills like this.
 
I think the parts that appear to look like two back wall mirrors, are in fact two other doorways/into other rooms, and the 'skyscrapers' are shadows formed on the floor in the room.

I'd assumed they were garages or warehouses. I can't see them as windows or mirroes at all!
 
I can't understand this photo at all; not even the correct scale of it:

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Police recovered $200,000 worth of stolen Lego sets in Oregon. Photograph: Springfield police department
I was going to chime in and say what Sid & Friedswide concluded:
Oh - yes, just noticed that it states that they are Lego sets!
After having taken another look at it, I think the parts that appear to look like two back wall mirrors, are in fact two other doorways/into other rooms, and the 'skyscrapers' are shadows formed on the floor in the room.
I'd assumed they were garages or warehouses. I can't see them as windows or mirroes at all!
It is a bird's eye view of a MASSIVE pile of (stolen) Lego sets in various size boxes (including very big boxes), with two people just outside the shot but casting long shadows because of the low angle of the sun. The two dark oblongs —where the "mirror image" and the "skyscraper" shadow are—are open bay doors of a warehouse. This is where trucks back up and unload their cargo. The "mirror image" is just even more boxes of (stolen!) Lego sets, and the "skyscraper" shadow is the long shadow of part of the irregular but MASSIVE pile of (very stolen!!!:eek:) Lego sets. People in the picture are normal size but the pile of Lego loot is MASSIVE.

A pale orb-like artifact in the "skyscraper" shadow area could indeed make it look like it could be a weird reflection if you aren't familiar with open bay doors of warehouses. (Now is the time for someone to pipe up and say this is a photo of a haunted warehouse or a bat's eye view of haunted Gotham.)
 
Well done. RAF need skills like this.
"Cheers, and thanks for your approval 'Analogue boy:" (Made my day). :botp:
Was thinking about joining the Red Arrows. . . :)
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I was going to chime in and say what Sid & Friedswide concluded:


It is a bird's eye view of a MASSIVE pile of (stolen) Lego sets in various size boxes (including very big boxes), with two people just outside the shot but casting long shadows because of the low angle of the sun. The two dark oblongs —where the "mirror image" and the "skyscraper" shadow are—are open bay doors of a warehouse. This is where trucks back up and unload their cargo. The "mirror image" is just even more boxes of (stolen!) Lego sets, and the "skyscraper" shadow is the long shadow of part of the irregular but MASSIVE pile of (very stolen!!!:eek:) Lego sets. People in the picture are normal size but the pile of Lego loot is MASSIVE.

A pale orb-like artifact in the "skyscraper" shadow area could indeed make it look like it could be a weird reflection if you aren't familiar with open bay doors of warehouses. (Now is the time for someone to pipe up and say this is a photo of a haunted warehouse or a bat's eye view of haunted Gotham.)
Yes that makes more sense than reflections. The two people at the front may have been given the task of constructing all the sets to make sure nothing is missing.
 
I'd assumed they were garages or warehouses. I can't see them as windows or mirroes at all!
^this^ I automatically recognized the background as warehouse doors and that the photo was taken from above.

The sun coming in from the front makes the "skyscraper" shadows. We wouldn't see this except in a photo taken from above.
 
The bigger the zoom on a lens the greater the effect of compacting the perceived distance effect in the resulting photo. My guess would be a 600 mms zoom lens.
I think what also contributes to the effect – which is very jarring indeed – is the shape of the building's roof.

We have to be looking down on it, otherwise the sea wouldn't be visible, but it appears that we're looking at it pretty much at the same level. Again, the long lens will exacerbate that effect.

But it is a genuinely striking image.
 
I think what also contributes to the effect – which is very jarring indeed – is the shape of the building's roof.

We have to be looking down on it, otherwise the sea wouldn't be visible, but it appears that we're looking at it pretty much at the same level. Again, the long lens will exacerbate that effect.

But it is a genuinely striking image.
It’s a hard one to picture. I can see it as looking from above and then the picture makes sense, but then my perspective quickly to see it as 2D (which it is). The wave in the foreground of the ship is almost a straight line, making it look like it is two separate images.
 
But it's obviously a chimney lol Maybe for a split second you might mistake it it for a fat spliff but it's far too angular!
 
Plus having to turn the screen around to see at a proper angle... Photos at odd angles make me queasy.
Yes folks. . . it's definitely a Chimney, with a pretty girl with black painted fingernails, with two sets of prints in a field of snow.
"Wow!" :conf2:(?)

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:doh:
*And, it looks like it's a selfie ~ explains why it's all wonky!
 
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