25 mind-boggling photos from 2020 that will make you look twice
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Reuters' oddest photos of 2020 included some unusual moments, like the time a man drove with dozens of geese in tow.REUTERS/Umit Bektas
- Reuters releases a collection of the oddest pictures photographers take each year.
- In 2020, some photos in the series depict odd ways the coronavirus altered our lives with inventions like a plexiglass bubble and a hugging station.
- Other pictures are optical illusions, like a child scooting over an artwork depicting a swimming pool. Another kid appears to be floating over Bangkok.
- There are also images that simply captured unusual moments, like a man driving down a highway with dozens of geese perched on top of his car.
Each year, Reuters releases a collection of mind-boggling photos. Its 2020 series is full of bizarre images.
Of course, the coronavirus pandemic is a big part of this year's collection, with some photos featuring face masks and plexiglass - things that would have confused people a year ago, and that have become part of our new normal in recent months.
Reuters also threw some optical illusions into the mix. These photos are so perfectly framed and timed that they look unreal. For example, one image shows a kid on a scooter on what looks like water, though it's really a piece of art on the floor.
Other photos in the series highlight unusual things you don't see every day, like a green puppy named Pistachio and a skateboarding dog.
Some photos - like this image of babies in face shields - show how the pandemic has altered the world in ways that would have seemed odd a year ago.
Nurses hold two newborn babies wearing protective face shields at the Peaeam 9 hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.
REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
Nurses at Bangkok, Thailand's Peaeam 9 hospital handcrafted tiny face shields for these newborn babies because their mother said they had to take a taxi or public transportation to get home, the hospital told Time.
This plexiglass bubble might have shocked people in 2019, but it's become part of the new normal.
This is a prototype of the Plex'Eat plexiglass bubble by Christophe Gernigon.
REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Source: Reuters
This outdoor yoga class in Toronto used individualized domes to minimize the spread of coronavirus, as Insider previously reported.
LMNTS Outdoor Studio cleans the domes in between classes.
REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
Source: Insider
Before 2020, Alex Montagano's hugging station - designed for hugging friends and family, as an article on The Guardian points out - might have looked odd.
Alex Montagano and his neighbor, Sharon Pearce-Anderson, used the hugging station.
REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
Source: The Guardian
This year, surgical masks became commonplace on your face, but this gentleman was captured using one as a pair of underwear, The New York Post reported.
The man was seen on Oxford Street in London.
REUTERS/Simon Dawson
Source: New York Post
This "corona-proof" concert in the Netherlands had club-goers dancing in socially-distanced seats, Reuters reported.
The concert took place in June 2020.
REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
Source: Reuters
Meanwhile in Spain, a theater hosted a somber concert for 2,300 house plants to highlight the importance of an audience, per Reuters.
The theater donated the plants to healthcare workers after the show.
REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Source: Reuters
At a movie theater in France, minion plushes sat in various seats to maintain social distancing between patrons, Reuters reported.
The theater was preparing to reopen to the public in July 2020.
REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Source: Reuters
In India, a sponge full of toothpicks kept people from touching elevator buttons, per Reuters.
The elevator is at a residency in Mumbai.
REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Source: Reuters
Some photos in the series are optical illusions. In this image, a gymnast's head is hidden behind a ball, making the viewer look twice.
Team Great Britain's rhythmic gymnast Lynne Karina Hutchison trained in the UK.
REUTERS/Peter Cziborra
This image appears to show a child riding a scooter on a pool, but really it's a piece of art on the floor.
The art was displayed in London.
REUTERS/Toby Melville
Source: Reuters
This tourist in Spain looks like he's gotten into some trouble with these bulls but they're actually taxidermy animals.
The taxidermy bulls we on display at "El panuelico de Hemingway," in Pamplona, Spain.
REUTERS/Jon Nazca
Source: Reuters
A child appears to be floating over Bangkok, but she's actually just sitting on a skywalk at the King Power Mahanakhon building.
She was watching a partial solar eclipse.
REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
Source: Reuters
These whale tails in the Netherlands are works of art, but that's a real train that overran its tracks and was left balancing on the sculpture, per The Guardian.
The train overran its tracks before landing on the artwork outside of Rotterdam.
REUTERS/Eva Plevier
The whale sculpture saved the operator's life and stopped the train car from crashing into water, as The Guardian reported in November.
These people wore protective space suits during a beach day in Brazil this July.
Tercio Galdino, 66, and his wife Aliceia, 65, are inside the suits.
REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Source: Reuters
The subject matter in some photos might make you look twice. In this image of an Audi converted into a horse-drawn carriage taken in Belarus this June, shepherd Alexey Usikov sits in his car while his horses Zorka and Tulpan lead the way.
The photo was taken in Belarus.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
Source: Reuters/Twitter
This kid brought his horse inside to watch the races.
The child's dog sat behind him.
REUTERS/Paul Childs
Source: Reuters
This sunflower photographed in the UK this August may have been wilting, but its carved smile made it look less sad.
The flower was photographed in Britain.
REUTERS/Phil Noble
Source: Reuters
You don't see a dog with skating skills every day. This is Nord Boss, a skateboarding French Bulldog pictured with his board in Moscow.
Nord Boss was at a skatepark in Moscow, Russia.
REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Source: Reuters
This green puppy is oddly unique. Named Pistachio, the puppy was born with tinted fur, as Insider previously reported.
Pistachio was born in Italy.
Cristian Mallocci/Handout via REUTERS
Source: Insider
92-year-old Nguyen Van Chien of Vietnam has dreadlocks that are almost 17 feet long, per The Guardian.
Nguyen Van Chien told The Guardian he has not cut, washed, or combed his hair in nearly 80 years.
REUTERS/Yen Duong
Source: The Guardian
22-year-old Norma Rashia got a facial massage from Giant African land snails to boost her skin's collagen in Jordan.
Norma Rashia, 22, had a snail facial.
REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
Source: Reuters
This duo in Brazil invented electric monowheels with brooms attached inspired by "Harry Potter."
The monowheel is called "nuvem."
REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Source: Reuters
This cat named Ryzhik lost its paws and got 3D-printed titanium prosthetics in 2019, according to Reuters. Here, Ryzhik is pictured at a veterinarian clinic in Novosibirsk, Russia, in February.
Ryzhik the cat is pictured at a veterinarian's office in Novosibirsk, Russia, on February 2, 2020.
REUTERS/Vladislav Nekrasov
Source: Reuters
This photo - which shows a man transporting dozens of geese on a highway in Azerbaijan this October - might be the oddest of the bunch.
The man was seen driving with the geese this fall.
REUTERS/Umit Bektas
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