Fun with Perspective
Doesn't everybody just love those cute pictures that couples take of each other holding the 
setting sun in their hands? Or the "pinching" of distant objects between your fingers. You can browse Flickr groups for these shots until you puke.
setting sun in their hands? Or the "pinching" of distant objects between your fingers. You can browse Flickr groups for these shots until you puke.
Some of these shots are just dang creative! Forced perspective challenges your eye's depth perception. It usually will fool you if you don't pick up on the vague indications that are minimized when a scene becomes a photograph.
The Ames Room in California uses some strong geometry
in the architecture to fool you on site! None of these horizontal lines are parallel to one another. But from a predetermined POV (point of view) it will render itself plumb and square. The occupants of the room, however will appear to be disproportionately smaller or larger, depending on where they are standing in the room.
He's not on the left by accident! 
Didn't anyone tell this hapless idiot that you are supposed to keep eye contact when you bow? From my POV, there is more than perspective being forced here.
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