Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2010/08/20/explain-this-photo.html
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Maybe Google Photos merged two similar photos for him?
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It’s not a reflection, it’s a picture on the screen.
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Rolling shutter? I mean that’s the obvious reason, so I’m guessing there’s a clever reason why it can’t be that, that I missed…
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If the shutter speed was set really long the shot would be blurred wouldn’t it?
Yes. So it’s either not a live feed or there’s a transmission delay.
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I see no eye-mouths or mouth-eyes.
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As suggested above, rolling shutter means there is a slight delay between the left & right half of the picture being exposed, while keeping the exposure time for each part of the the picture, short enough to avoid blurring.
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I just saw this same effect with a bird nabbing a french fry from a guy holding it out his car window. Wings are in one position on the bird and a different position on the reflection in the side mirror.
Its due to the rolling shutter as @Avyctes points out.
The only other reason this would happen is if someone purposefully doctored it like in this image…
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Annnnd…this is a bbs TIME WARP (2010)…which I did not realize until I followed @Richard_Harnwell ’s link above to TwistedSifter’s 2017 post, which links to the BoingBoing post from 2010. 
paging @orenwolf I guess
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