Captured Canadian experimental explosion with visible shockwaves at the Proving Ground – 2015

Insane forest fire burning in Pemberton British Columbia – 2015

Saudi Arabia airstrike in Yemen - 2015

Indonesian navy hitting foreign fishing vessels - 2015

French thermonuclear test codenamed Licorne, carried out in French Polynesia on July 3rd, 1970

Deepwater Horizon rig sinking, on April 22nd, 2010

Cape Town, South Africa, during the devastating brushfires – 2015

Storage oil tank in fire - Es Sider, Libya – 2014

Volcanic eruption of Calbuco, in Chile. April 30th, 2015

Gilbert Bourdin statue being demolished in 2001

Aftermath of the bombing of retreating Iraqi troops by Allied forces in Kuwait – 1991

Oil train explodes near Casselton, North Dakota, on December 30th, 2013

Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - September 2005

Silk Skies by Jamen Percy (Australia)
19 February 2014
Abisko National Park, Lapland, Sweden

April Aurora by Kolbein Svensson (Norway)
20 April 2014
Hitra, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway

Sumo Waggle Adventure by Arild Heitmann (Norway)
11 November 2014
Lomaas River, Skånland, Norway

Some paintings are so realistic, you can not even imagine that these are not photographs. Yet the 20 pictures below are all true- to-life paintings.

Bryan Drury – Oil painting

Omar Ortiz - Oil on canvas

Paul Cadden - Paper and pencil

Kamalky Laureano - Acrylic painting

Lee Price - Oil painting

Ron Mueck - Hyperrealist human sculptures

Kim Ji Hoon - Pencil

Ray Hare - Acrylic painting

Pedro Campos - Oil painting

Dirk Dzimirsky - Pencil

Thomas Arvid - 

Samuel Silva - Pen

Gottfried Helnwein - Oil painting

Mike Bayne - Oil painting

Diego Fazio - Pencil

Robin Eley – Oil painting