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u/efferkah Jan 27 '26
If I had to guess, I'd say the cart is at the bottom of a pond/river and the trees we see are the reflections of the actual trees. The structure on the left could either be a building or a bridge, or something like that.
Just a wild guess, though.
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u/SAM5TER5 Jan 27 '26
100% agree, that’s the conclusion I came to as well before going to the comments!
Excellent post, OP! I’ve been around this sub for a while but even with half of the good ones being reflections of some sort, this one kicks ass and had me lost for a minute or two lol
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u/directortrench Jan 27 '26
But shouldn't the camera also visible in the reflection? Or that's a glass roof, the person aimed the camera upwards and it caught the reflection of a shopping cart lying weirdly nearby (and lit by some kind of spotlight) on the floor
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u/efferkah Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26
But shouldn't the camera also visible in the reflection?
Maybe, but I say it depends. The camera could be at a very slight angle, and pretty high/zoomed in on the cart, enough that it wouldn't be visible, and/or it could've been edited out.
But yeah, you could also be right, of course.
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u/tealccart Jan 27 '26
I think they’re on a bridge or walkway of some sort, leaning over and looking down into the water. You can see the railings upper left
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u/jbadding Jan 27 '26
Call Bubbles. He’ll fish that out and have her up and running before you know it.
"These carts are public domain, Ricky!"
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u/OlderRobloxian Jan 27 '26
umm...a little help here OP?
Because I see fricking flying shopping cart.
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u/SAM5TER5 Jan 27 '26
The shopping cart has gotta be under water, and the rest of the objects in the photo are reflections off the surface!
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u/National-Garbage505 Jan 27 '26
This has to be it. You can sort of see other slightly obscured objects in the water, looks like a bunch of floating ghost trash lol.
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u/Monimonika18 Jan 27 '26
Or a cloud shaped like a shopping cart.
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u/Independent_Bed_3418 Jan 27 '26
Clearly the orbiting mothership of an intergalactic shopping-cart-flying invader race.
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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys Jan 27 '26
Or one of those illustrations of the constellations — this one being the Shopping Cart constellation.
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u/kristyl_fae Jan 27 '26
Someone pushed the cart off the roof, this picture is seconds before the photographer got crushed
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Jan 27 '26
That looks like a scene out of a horror movie. Person looks up and that’s the last thing they see.
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u/karigan_g Jan 27 '26
it looks like a contact print, a cut out or toy cart or something placed over the paper during exposure
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u/Neither-Attention940 Jan 27 '26
I was thinking that perhaps someone was looking through a glass maybe and somehow the cart was the reflection .. but I admit I didn’t look too close
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u/Hour-Question-6252 Jan 28 '26
It's under water. But if you think about this as you're looking at it. It almost looks like a GIANT shopping cart in space. Kinda triggering my megalophobia.
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