Snaky Colorado River Photo Tricks the Eye
From the NBC News Photo Blog:
“Is this a dragon snaking over the slopes of the Lonely Mountain, as in ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’? Actually, you’re looking at the Colorado River snaking through Canyonlands National Park in Utah. It’s just the orientation of the picture from DigitalGlobe’s GeoEye 1 satellite that makes you think the river’s gray surface is rising up from the rock.”
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