Newcastle, England – Tyne Bridge across the River Tyne at dusk (taken on February 22, 2017)
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Alphabetical Cities week 13: M for Maastricht
Maastricht, the Netherlands – Windows near a place called “VOORMALIG FEILZUSTERS KLOOSTER” (taken on October 20, 2012)
Alphabetical Cities week 12: L for Linlithgow
Linlithgow, Scotland – One of the gates of St Michael’s Parish Church next to Linlithgow Palace (taken on September 16, 2017)
Alphabetical Cities week 11: K for Kyoto
Kyoto, Japan – A middle-aged man staring at a gachapon machine (or into the void, I can’t tell) in a store full of rows on rows of them (taken on January 16, 2018)
Oct 11, 2017 – WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
Glasgow, Scotland, taken on September 23, 2017
The Ames Room is one of my favourite optical illusions and a perfect demonstration of scale or…the distorted perception of scale. I wasn’t so convinced when I saw photos and videos of this illusion, but when I saw the REAL thing at the Glasgow Science Centre, I was quite awed. Here one twin appears to be a giant while the other looks like a midget…makes sense or no?! I’m still unable to explain how it works exactly but I guess that’s the fun part about optical illusions – you don’t need an explanation for it to be amusing!
