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20 PHOTOGRAPHS that will BLOW your mind

October 08, 2013 09:43 IST

We present a collection of optical illusion images clicked across the world that will surely blow your mind!

Opening photo: A man jumps into the cool water of the Dnipro river in Kiev, Ukraine.

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20 PHOTOGRAPHS that will BLOW your mind

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Members of a family pose for a photograph in front of a 3D painting at the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.

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20 PHOTOGRAPHS that will BLOW your mind

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The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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20 PHOTOGRAPHS that will BLOW your mind

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Artist Liu Bolin demonstrates an art installation by blending in with vegetables displayed on the shelves at a supermarket in Beijing, China.

Liu, also known as the 'Vanishing Artist', started practising being "invisible" by means of optical illusions more than eight years ago.

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20 PHOTOGRAPHS that will BLOW your mind

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Street artists from India perform in downtown Rome, Italy.

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20 PHOTOGRAPHS that will BLOW your mind

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Legoland Parks' project coordinator Stefan Bentivoglio makes fine adjustments to a lego model of Singapore's Fullerton hotel and Merlion during a media preview of Legoland Malaysia at Nusajaya, in the southern state of Johor, Malaysia.

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A security guard jokingly inspects the back of a self-portrait entitled "Mask II" by Australian sculptor Ron Mueck at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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German street artist Johan Lorbeer is observed while performing "Tarzan. Standing Leg Still Life Performance" at the Alhondiga Centre on the first day of the Aste Nagusia (Big Week), a nine-day fiesta, in Bilbao, Spain.

Lorbeer draws crowds fascinated by his gravity defying suspension in mid-air while resting his hand against a wall.

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20 PHOTOGRAPHS that will BLOW your mind

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A visitor looks at a monumental sculpture by artist Robert Therrien in the Metropolitan Arts Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Visitors look at each other in an Ames room at a private exhibition of optical Illusions in St Petersburg, Russia.

An Ames room is constructed with a distorted perspective to confuse observers' sense of scale.

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The back and head of Eurasier dogs Tinu and Uno are seen from behind a tree as their handler (not pictured) holds onto their leads during the launch of the Crufts dog show in Green Park, central London.

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Philadelphia Phillies’ Ben Francisco reacts after being hit in the head with a pitch by Cincinnati Reds’ Logan Ondrusek during a baseball playoff in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.

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A woman poses for a photograph in front of a 3D painting at an exhibition in Guiyang, Guizhou province, China.

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Spectators and soldiers, from behind a cut-out of Muttiah Muralitharan, watch a test cricket match between Sri Lanka and India from the top of a fort overlooking the grounds, in Galle.

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20 PHOTOGRAPHS that will BLOW your mind

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A dog looks over the shoulder of a girl during the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, UK.

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A woman (reflected in the mirror) and a man stand at a washstand at a camp on the banks of the Yenisei river in the Siberian Taiga, Russia.

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Visitors are reflected in mirrors at the installation "Environment 3" by artist Luc Peire at the Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand.

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A partially submerged billboard on a tramstop is seen on the flooded embankments of the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, in June, 2013.

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A radio-controlled Superman plane, flown by designer Otto Dieffenbach, passes the moon during a test flight in San Diego, California.

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Two giraffes calves cross each other in their enclosure at the Knies Kinderzoo in Rapperswil, Switzerland.

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