This isn’t a painting… it’s a photo. SO MUCH PRETTY STUFF GOING ON.

Wow, I’m speechless. Even after knowing it’s a photo, it is still tricking my brain into thinking it’s a painting, or at least photoshopped. Crazy. Found it because it’s today’s picture of the day on NationalGeographic.com:

Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park.

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