Photos are so ubiquitous these days that there are undoubtedly some amazing shots that get lost in the mix. After all, how do you focus on a single sunset in a sea of thousands of them?
One way to ensure an image really stands out is to take one that is, well, outstanding.
This may seem easier said than done, but when you step out in the world with your eyes wide open, all sorts of interesting phenomena and happenings will present themselves to you.
Through this lens, you can get a truly unique look into what an exceptional place our world really is. Don’t just take our word for it, though. Here are 45 photos that people couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take.
1. Piebald deer
Only 1% of deer have this kind of coloring!
2. Cat splat
We couldn’t help but smile at this little cat-shaped spot on the ground where a furball cuddled up to wait out the storm.
Even it’s little footprints are visible.
3. Van Gogh woodwork
We think of Van Gogh as a post-Impressionist painter, but maybe he’s more of a realist than we realized!
Splitting firewood and found a piece resembling the sky in “The Starry Night”. from r/mildlyinteresting
4. Moss puppy
We just don’t think it’s going to be good at playing games.
5. Spotless ladybug
This one is on its own, but has no spots – we think you get to determine your own luck on that.
6. Street art
Now it’s going to be really hard to wash off!
Dirt Art spotted on the back door of a delivery truck on the freeway in L.A. from r/mildlyinteresting
7. The good kind of seagull
But a driftwood seagull seems fine.
It’s like a little message from nature – and you can interpret at will.
8. Fire mountain
The phenomenon is known as “alpenglow.’
9. Nature begets nature
We love this little forest – too bad it has to melt. But it being temporary is part of what makes it special (and photo-worthy!).
10. Doppleganger?
These guys could be brothers, but they’re total strangers who encountered each other at a wedding.
We hope they stayed friends!
My friend met a stranger at a wedding that looked just like him and was wearing the same thing. from r/mildlyinteresting
11. Retired Batman
What enemy would have trapped in a tree? Poison Ivy, perhaps?
12. Hard pass
At first, we thought he was on stilts, but he just has some very long legs.
13. Ain’t no party like a ladybug party
And if you look closely, you’ll see that not all ladybugs have spots – so the post above wasn’t so weird after all.
Went hiking today – thought this was some kind of fungus until I looked closer – thousands of ladybugs clustered on fallen trees. from r/mildlyinteresting
14. A glitch in the Matrix
Or did some triplets take a bus ride together?
It really looks like the Matrix is glitching.
15. Edward Carrothands
We just hope he didn’t eat it that way – put that on a plate first.
This incredible carrot hand was found while digging juice carrots at our farm today from r/mildlyinteresting
16. Broccol-tree
Is it the angle? The light?
Seriously, it looks so much like a large stalk of broccoli that we wonder if we need to look more closely at other trees.
17. Meta dentist
It’s such an odd thing to do to hang a photo of your bathroom on the bathroom wall, but…what can we say?
Bathroom at my dentist has a picture of the bathroom at my dentist hanging on the wall. from r/mildlyinteresting
18. Leftovers
But we are glad to see that it’s not going to waste entirely during the pandemic. And we’re sure some went to a shelter as well.
19. Lucky Elvis
The black cat gives this statue his hair.
It’s funny what our minds create out of the random things we see.
20. Jackpot!
Or, wait, are they ALL stuck?!
Now THAT would be our version of work Hell.
Vending machine at work made an error and distributed everything all at once. from r/mildlyinteresting
21. Encouraging generosity
We’ve often tipped 100% during hard times, but never 99% – especially when it would involve making change.
22. Golden bee
This one is just on the windshield, so it’s all good.
The closest guess was that this is a cordovan bee.
23. Reaching the sun
They’re such amazing plants.
24. No smoking
But it’s not even that interesting.
25. A day that will live in infamy
And we also wouldn’t have returned to that dog park to hang it, assuming from then on out that it was bad luck.
But this sure does make us laugh.
26. Water wedding
Sometimes that’s the most exciting thing to happen all day in an office.
27. Alternative reindeer
What a treat!
This Christmas tree farm has Newfies that will cart your tree to your car for you from r/mildlyinteresting
28. Good boy
It makes us sad, but at the same time, it reminds us how wonderful dogs really are.
29. Accountability
But we really do appreciate seeing the facts. The city doesn’t really have to meet its goals, but having to post them at least lets us ask more pointed questions.
30. Everybody loves Iceland
But we have to admit that it’s such a popular place to visit for people in India! That’s a long trip!
31. Crystal surprise
Luckily, our ubiquitous phones allow us to snap a photo first.
32. A sense of humor
But it looks like Danica is just straight-up racist. And we kind of hope she comes back and sees these shirts.
33. A healthy explosion
This looks pretty cool – we just want to know if it cut up into nice steaks or fell apart entirely like ours usually does.
34. Owl-shroom
But that’s just a random mushroom.
Don’t you love when people take time to peel their eyes away from a phone to really look at nature?
35. There’s a bear in there!
Or does that only kind of look like a bear and it’s really just a smashed fruit vitamin?
Some mysteries may never be solved.
36. The great pumpkin
And while it might not be earth-shattering, we are curious to know where he’s taking that thing. A contest? A 4-H fair? A pie-maker?
37. No eyesores here
We thought someone co-opted a tree already there.
But it’s not natural, why not make sure the branches cover all of the machine parts?
38. Huge!
We’re not sure we would have noticed it off the bat, but now we can’t unsee it!
39. Don’t hurt the kitten
And it really does look like a kitten, which would make us feel extra-bad about smashing it.
It’s just funny that someone decided they needed a photo of it first.
40. Sun dog or rainblob?
And the rainbow effect isn’t that common either.
It’s just a little spot of rainbow – and hopefully it bought a little luck to the person who saw it.
41. Oh, Christmas tree
As someone from a snowy part of the world, it’s hard to remember that snow and Christmas aren’t a combination most people experience.
But this tree looks all alone as well. Maybe the animals decorated.
42. Cat squirrel
Just like the piebald deer above, these creatures are an extremely rare sight.
They’re pretty cute though!
43. Let me tell you a tale
We’re sure he’s just as friendly as all of the other lizards though.
44. One last party
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45. Completing the license plate game
Do kids do that anymore now that they have a phone to occupy them?
Anyway, this would have really made our day to see because it has to be one of the rarest plates – from an autonomous zone in the country of Georgia.
Car with a license plate from Abkhazia, a country with very limited recognition, spotted in Almaty, Kazakhstan from r/mildlyinteresting
There you have it. The next time you’re feeling slightly bored with life, whip out your camera and take a closer look at the world through a new lens. It won’t disappoint.
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