Digital manipulation can do amazing things to your photographs even if they're not the most interesting photos (as seen here), but sometimes the most amazing pictures are the ones that haven't been Photoshopped. Take a look at the unbelievable pictures below to see what we mean.
Compiled by Bored Panda, the photo gallery showcases some of the most amazing real pictures we could find. Some of them are surreal, some are creepy, and some will positively blow your mind, and all of these cool photos serve to remind us that a good picture has nothing to do with your computer skills and everything to do with perfect timing, location, and a keen eye for detail. Don't forget to vote for the best!
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The Thousandth Of A Second
Levels Of Sunset
Amazing Photograph Of A Plane
This Is A Single Photo
This took too long for my eyes to figure out what i was looking at due to eye fuckery
Wheat Field Next To A Lavender Field
Lava That Formed To Look Like A Pile Of Bodies Being Sucked Into The Fiery Void Of Hell
This Picture Of Sutro Tower In San Francisco Makes It Look Like The Top Of The Flying Dutchman's Floating Ship
A Man Feeding Swans In The Snow
It isn't shore of lake, but bank of river in city downtown. And photographer took his photo on the bridge
Load More Replies...I love this picture! I've seen it before and I wish it was watermarked so we'd know the artist.
Confusing Perspective
The Road That Stopped The Fire
Every 10,000 Miles Of Driving Or So, I Get To See Something Like This
Beautiful photo. Storm of that magnitude - I am under the bed with my four cats. Very scary..
This Sunflower Doesn't Want To Face East
Took This Shot Through The Windshield Of My Car (At A Stop Sign) But I Had To Get This Picture!
Out Of Body Experience
Glowing Base Of Tree Made By Arranging Leaves
A Rock Created Bird Shaped Window Art On My Car
If I hadn't read the caption, I'd of definitely thought this was one fabulous looking bird flying across the sky!
Yosemite Firefall. It's Actually Not Lava But A Ray Of Sunlight. This Only Happens For 1-2 Weeks Near The End Of February If There Is Enough Snow And Semi Clear Sunset. It Only Last For 10mins Or Less
Rare Cloud Phenomenon Over Eastern Victoria, Australia
Cool Ice Effect After Flood
Boat Looks Like It's Floating In The Air
Does this picture make anyone else thirsty? I don't know what it is.... That water just looks really tasty
Under A Wave
Shining Mountain
1,400 Year Old Ginkgo Tree Drops A Carpet Of Golden Leaves Within The Walls Of The Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple In The Zhongnan Mountains In China
Devil's Bridge, Germany
Found This Chili With A Perfect "Mild To Hot" Gradient
A Crack In The Earth
Methane Bubbles, Abraham Lake
Antarctica, 4 Shades Of Blue
These Dogs Blend Right In
Teeth Of The Sea
Perfect Forest
Hermit Crab Using A Skull For A Shell
The Chinese Art Of The Crowd
Was Playing Around With My Camera And Some Broken Glass, And I Captured This
14 Wind Turbines Lined Up, Nevada
This Snowflake Center Looks Like The Star Wars Imperial Crest
Rainbow
I Kinda Created A Sandbear When I Crashed Into The Sand
This Spectrum Reflected Off The Dining Room Window Through A Chair Back
Extreme Waves In The North Sea
A Split Of Two Worlds Between The Architecture Of The City And The Green Of Central Park, New York
Flickering Beauty
Asperatus Clouds Over New Zealand
The Pit, A Dive Site In Tulum, Mexico
The Highlight Of My Visit To Schonbrunn
To See Flower In Water Drop
The Camera Focused On The Reflection Of The Tree Instead Of The Watch
Ice Formed On Jeep
A Gate At A Balinese Temple
I Took This Photo Of A Reflection In A Puddle And The Gravel Looks Like A Starry Night Sky
Power Washed Building In New York
Wisconsin This Week
Lol that's Canada everyday. -5°C is freaking warm here. That's 23 fahrenheit I believe.
This Is One Picture...
Perfect Red Line In A Hungarian Forest Marking The High Point Of A Toxic Aluminum Sludge Spill
Good thing it wasn't high enough to drown the cow on the right of the picture. ;)
Sky Over Citifield After Intense Storm Before Game
Never ever seen heaven like this. In this stupid era of photoshoping everything, photos like this are losing its values 'cause every body thinks they are "touched". Shame.
This Butterfly Has A Number On Its Wing
This Is A Weird-Looking Rabbit
These Roots Grew Around The Sidewalk Blocks
Church In Georgia With A Mountain Behind It
This Iceberg Looks Like Batman
Japanese Flower Phi At Its Finest
Perfectly Aligned Glasses
Train Station In Denmark
This Tree Still Has Its Leaves Because Of The Light Shining On It
Frozen Pond In Switzerland
A True Gentlemoon
The Crooked Forest
The Sunset Under The Clouds
Now that is an interesting perspective... Oh how I'd love to be a bird....
Africa’s Super Park
Square Cloud
The Gradient In This Coffee
Aurora Uncoiling
Lenticular Clouds
Birdy Hurricane
Some Ice Spider Webbed My Car
Maple Ridge In Japan
Slow Motion
A Pole Holding A Mountain
This Watusi Bull Looks Transparent Through Its Spots
So no one's going to make a "holey cow" joke?...No? ...Just checking.
Solar Eclipse In Canyon
Under The Icebergs
Sheep Going Through San Boldo Pass, Italy
A Hotel In The Netherlands
Doorway To Heaven
The Eruption Of Mount Ararat
Model Anja Rubik In A Dress From Viktor & Rolf 2010 Spring/Summer Show
I Washed My Car
This Fallen Tree Is Holding Back The Duckweed
Zhangye Danxia Landform In Gansu, China
Galaxy Image Created With The Help Of Cosco Ball And Water
Looks Like One Of The Buildings Is Draining Energy From The Other
New York City Just Witnessed An Absolutely Massive Lightning Strike Completely Spanning The Hudson River. I Happened To Have My Camera Set Up To Capture It
Picture I Took Last Night Of The Philadelphia City Hall, Felt Like I Was In Gotham
Fires And Tornadoes Aren't Bad Enough On Their Own
I just love the stance of the firefighter : "well, darn, look at that. A fire tornado. What ya gonna do? Huh. "
Mammatus Clouds
The Way This Ice Froze
A Building In Paris
The Gulf Of Alaska, Where Two Oceans Meet But Do Not Mix
Nope. That's Iceland with the black beach of Vík. You can even see the mountains in distance of the right corner. 20161018-D...4a457a.jpg
Sun Curling Up A Wave
My Coworker Had This Picture Taken At A Dodge Charger Meet-Up He Helped Organize
Inverted Icicles - Flipped A Drainage Pit Grate At Work
Impressive that it was able to be lifted and flipped without breaking any of them.
Frosted Trees
Bent Rail Tracks After A New Zealand Earthquake.
This Cloud Looks Like A Feather
Pancake Ice
Light Pillars In Northern Ontario
Spiral Pine
Lava Skull Descending Into The Ocean
Ice Age. Taken Atop Of Mt. Javornik, Slovenia
A Pile Of Timber Reflecting In A Puddle
Sky That Looks Like A Rough Sea
Salar De Uyuni, The World's Largest Salt Flat In Bolivia
Oceanic Flight
Waterspout Over Tampa Bay
Fish Trapped Inside A Jellyfish
It ain't trapped. Actually there's a species of fish that deliberately go inside of a jellyfish so that they can be protected by predators. It's quite smart, as the fish goes in and out of the jellyfish as he pleases, while the jellyfish is used as a "secured armor vehicle"
Clouds In Hampton Roads
Smog Over Almaty, Kazakhstan
Snail Riding A Baby Turtle
The Fire Happening Now In California's Lake Isabella Area
Fishermen Row A Boat In The Algae-Filled Chaohu Lake, China
Thunderstorm Formation — View From A Plane From 11,000 Meters
Mont Aiguille Et Chichilianne
China's Richest Village
Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada
Welcome To September
The Firefall In Yosemite
The Wine Glass Projected The Flag In The Window On To The Table
Shelf Cloud North Of Kearney
Hot Water Thrown Into The Air In Antarctica
Mirny, Yakutia, Russia
Highway In Netherlands
This Ship Looks Like It's Floating In The Sky
Eruption Of The Cordon Caulle, Chile. This Was Taken From Antillanca Mountain
Dispensed Some Dark Green Paint Into A Gallon And Made A Perfect Tear Drop.
Burned-out Utility Pole
Ladybower Is A Beautiful Y-shaped Reservoir On River Derwent Situated Between The Hills Of The Peak District National Park
Spider Web Trees
Winter Meets Spring, Russia
A Giant Lava Bubble Releasing Volcanic Glass In The Air
Itap Of A Man In Mask
Dust Storm In Australia, 2013
A Wind Blown Tree I Saw In Hawaii
The Edge Of An Iceberg Floating Just Off The Coast Of Antarctica
Shiva The Destroyer
Hutt Lagoon
Soldiers On A Morning Exercise In Sub-Zero Temperatures, Chinese Province Heilongjiang
Snow Pattern
Autumn Is Coming. One Single Shot Without Photoshop Layers. Just Saturated The Colors
Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, Australia
Microburst In Phoenix. Photo Taken By A News Helicopter
New Photo From Gaza Today Looks Like Actual Hell On Earth
Seven Ghosts In Indonesia
Nyc, 1995
Snow In Altai
This Cloud Looks Like A Breaking Wave
Border Between Italy And Switzerland
This Thin Streak Of Snow Across Ohio
A Cloud With Two Very Straight Edges
Neighborhoods Santosh Park And Uttam Nagar, Delhi, India
honestly... looks god awful... just a giant slab of dusty concrete... not nothin nowhere....
A Temple Covered In Ash From The Ontake Volcanic Eruption, Japan
How Rain Looks Through A Porthole
This Guy At The Park Looks Like No
He is holding his phone in the air. Yoooo people are wild. Great photo.
New York
I have made to the end of tbis gallery. 38 minutes of brilliant experience. :)
Celebrating The 100th Anniversary Of The Birth Of Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s Founder
Canadian Diamond Mines
Lake Natron, Tanzania
how to post picture? These are pretty cool clouds, trying to shape a fork. https://www.pic-upload.de/view-32786765/WP_20170113_11_29_14_Pro.jpg.html
Well, since the last recorded eruption of Mt. Ararat was in 1840, I kind of believe pic no.85 just might be photoshopped ;)
Terrific ...what change from seeing so much that depresses and horrifies
The wonders of Nature and the Photographers eye, an amazing combination
Great list, would love to have links to download them for Desktop backgrouns (Imac 27-inch 5120 x 2880 pixels please! ).
#28 is photoshopped, photographer cloned the f**k outta that left-down corner
#118 the Erskine fire,,,that one was crazy, the picture only shows a portion of it too, it went on for miles and miles..those were some very scary times in our little valley
people giving animals alcohol should be criminal and punishable everywhere. Drowning pigs who had no control over the ignorance of sick humans makes me ill and very angry.
This is an image of a breast cancer cell that a friend of my wife was able to get an image of. No joke. BreastCanc...aed858.jpg
When you see these pictures you begin to think about how complex and amezing the world really is. :)
This messed me up and I cant go back where I was I have been Hi Jacked missed the last 5=7 pages
You would not bealive me, but this picture isn't photoshopped! 20180611_1...ae90e7.jpg
those pictures are amazing it remind us whom is the true and most beautiful artist in the world God almighty and again thank you for your wonderful works of arts
how to post picture? These are pretty cool clouds, trying to shape a fork. https://www.pic-upload.de/view-32786765/WP_20170113_11_29_14_Pro.jpg.html
Well, since the last recorded eruption of Mt. Ararat was in 1840, I kind of believe pic no.85 just might be photoshopped ;)
Terrific ...what change from seeing so much that depresses and horrifies
The wonders of Nature and the Photographers eye, an amazing combination
Great list, would love to have links to download them for Desktop backgrouns (Imac 27-inch 5120 x 2880 pixels please! ).
#28 is photoshopped, photographer cloned the f**k outta that left-down corner
#118 the Erskine fire,,,that one was crazy, the picture only shows a portion of it too, it went on for miles and miles..those were some very scary times in our little valley
people giving animals alcohol should be criminal and punishable everywhere. Drowning pigs who had no control over the ignorance of sick humans makes me ill and very angry.
This is an image of a breast cancer cell that a friend of my wife was able to get an image of. No joke. BreastCanc...aed858.jpg
When you see these pictures you begin to think about how complex and amezing the world really is. :)
This messed me up and I cant go back where I was I have been Hi Jacked missed the last 5=7 pages
You would not bealive me, but this picture isn't photoshopped! 20180611_1...ae90e7.jpg
those pictures are amazing it remind us whom is the true and most beautiful artist in the world God almighty and again thank you for your wonderful works of arts