Fun gallery of "double take" photos

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Bits & Pieces has a fun collection of "double take" photos. Each one caused a fun moment of "huh?" in my mind, until reality snapped into place.

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Jason

These are great, but they missed the best double take photo. http://pigroll.com/img/the_light_on_your_knee.jpg
- jesse
  
  ah crap. you beat me to it
- TheMudshark
  
  This one´s pretty great too.
  - TheMudshark
    
    Sorry, forgot to add the pic.
me3dia

According to a tiny little “via” at the end of that post, all of the photos were lifted from SmashingCorner.com. http://smashingcorner.com/2012/05/look-twice/
http://www.madziabryll.com Cefeida

Awesome :D
cservant

What’s the illusion of the 2nd last one? All I can see is a bunch of girls.
- Ambiguity
  
  The girl in the center looks like she has her legs inappropriately spread.
  
  Now: what’s the scoop with the one with the guitar? I can’t see anything strange there.
  - http://twitter.com/Fred_Hunter Fred Hunter
    
    Keep looking…
  - http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch
    
    The heads seem to belong to different bodies.
http://www.facebook.com/djfeld01 David Feldman

The jeans belong to the guy and the bare legs belong to the girl. Took me awhile on that one.

I didn’t see the flag/beach one, and I don’t understand where the third leg comes from at the top of this post.
- Glen Able
  
  Yeah, that 3 legs one shown above is a good’un. I got it eventually, and then came back later and couldn’t figure it out again. It works so well because you instantly assume the middle leg is the one that isn’t real and then stare relentlessly at it, trying to uncover its secret.
  - http://www.facebook.com/djfeld01 David Feldman
    
    WOW. Never even crossed my mind that the leg on the left was the one I should be staring out. I was focused on the other two. That’s good.
http://twitter.com/Fred_Hunter Fred Hunter
AquaDad18

I needed a laugh this morning. These are fantastic and hilarious.
At first I had these confused with bad photo-shopped pictures and then I realized there’s no trickery here.
SamSam

Most of these are wonderful, but I’m afraid, as tired as this saying is, the one of the kid on the beach is definitely a shop. I can tell from some (all) of the pixels around the kid (and from having seen quite a few shops in my life).

I mean, that’s some terrible clone tool right there.

I love the rest, though. The flying carpet is a classic.
hypnosifl

A lot of these are great, but I’m not sure if I get what’s weird about the one with the girl taking a photo in the mirror while her friend applies makeup…is it just that the blonde girl’s shoulder looks kind of like it could be the butt of the girl in the background facing the wall? That one didn’t really fool my brain…