The surprises of nature: to these unrealistic photos you want to look twice

Using Photoshop you can create many amazing things, but mother nature also wasn't born yesterday, and is able to create optical illusions are not worse. Planet is full of breathtaking natural phenomena, seeing that simply will not believe your eyes. And despite the fact that there are understandable explanations for each of these phenomena, they still they don't look less than stunning.

"Underwater swirl" off the coast of the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean. This optical illusion is due to the accumulation of silt and sand.

No, there were no aliens. Perhaps it looks like the trail stay in the sky a UFO, but in fact, these holes in the clouds are due to the fact that supercooled water droplets freeze and fall to the ground during the passage of the aircraft through the cloud.

At first glance it looks like the boys jump into the abyss, but in fact they are about to dive into the crystal clear water of a karst spring called "Jacob's Well" (Texas, USA).

No, it's not a masterpiece by one of the Impressionists. This polar stratospheric clouds, which are often visible to the inhabitants of Norway and other Arctic regions.

This alien landscape is more like a drawing than a photo. But this painting exists in reality: bright red dunes and trees can be found at the bottom of a dry lake in Namibia.

At first glance it may seem that this is some distant planet with three luminaries in the sky, but in fact, this optical phenomenon is called Parghelia. It occurs from time to time due to the special type of refraction of light hitting the ice crystals floating in the atmosphere.

Blurry uneven layers of sedimentary rocks in the national Park Vermilion Cliffs (Arizona, USA) look like a giant picture.

Dead trees in snow? In fact, "branches" – the riverbed of small rivers, making their way through the desert in Baja California (Mexico).

You might think that this man is in the verge of death, but he calmly walks along the river in Utah (USA).

This phenomenon is called a Fiery whirlwind. The fact that in the upper reaches of the río Tinto (Huelva, Spain) for more than 3000 years is mining, which leads to increased acidity of the water, and she, in turn, can affect the appearance of these frightening natural phenomena.

These pastoral hills in Washington state (USA) in certain light look like paintings.

This type of bizarre clouds are called Undulatus Asperatus (translated from Latin – "wavy-bumpy").

Colorful hills in the Chinese geological Park danxia peak.

The Horse Tail falls in Yosemite national Park (California, USA).

Blood waterfall in Antarctica that looks like a field of terrible battle. The brightness of the color is due to high concentration of iron oxide in the water.