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‘Mildly Interesting’: 50 Images To Amuse You Just Slightly (New Pics)
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What was the most interesting thing you randomly spotted in real life that you just had to capture and share with others? It's amazing how many things surround us that are far more intriguing and maybe even weird, but we often don't pay enough attention to notice them. It may just take a particular moment to discover something that won't be visible in a couple of minutes. Sometimes it's the lighting creating unique artifacts, and from our perspective, something very ordinary suddenly looks like it's out of this world.
There are people who specialize in capturing these funny coincidences and sharing them online. Often, they are street photographers who have a keen eye for their surroundings and capture the most interesting moments. However, anyone can get lucky and come across something extraordinary. The Facebook page 'Mildly Interesting' features unique images shared by people online.
Scroll down and see if there's still something that may surprise you. If you find something mind-blowing, let us know in the comment section which image stood out the most to you.
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The Symmetry Of This Flower
My Dog Moved While I Was Taking A Panorama And Now They're Cerberus
My Neighbor's Mailbox
For this article, we got in touch with a street photographer from Greece, Anthimos Ntagkas, who specializes in capturing very unique and interesting shots of his surroundings. The whole magic of photos taken by Anthimos lies in finding little details no one else pays attention to in order to create a fresh image that's surprising for the viewer. That is why we found a correlation between the pictures featured in today’s post, which can cause an odd feeling of satisfaction while looking at them, and those taken by Ntagkas.
We asked the photographer how he approaches finding and selecting the elements on the streets that he later combines in his photographs. Ntagkas shared with us: “When I first started to take photos, I used to find a place in the streets that I liked and wait for people to come by. But this has changed. Nowadays, I don't choose the place, but I make every location work for me. I combine people with elements everywhere I am.”
This Very Realistic Wood Sculpture
This Message At The Bottom Of My Cereal Bar Box
Bored With Coins
Since Anthimos has years of experience in street photography, we wanted him to describe a specific photograph where he successfully combined elements found on the streets to create a visually satisfying and fresh composition. We were curious about what made this composition stand out. We were told: “The photographs that I found most interesting are the ones with the juxtaposition. The connection between two different themes or even more inside one photo is very intriguing to work for. Luckily the themes in this type of photography are endless and I never lose interest in photography; that’s why I love street photography.”
A Real Life Pastafarian
The Fog Made This Stadium Look Like A Spaceship
My Race Number Matched My Shirt And Finishing Time
Asked how he manages to strike a balance between the spontaneity of capturing elements on the streets and the need to create a cohesive and visually pleasing composition, the photographer answered: “I get influenced by a lot of photographers who relate to this subject of photography, but my main concern is always to do something completely different each and every time.”
Pencil Crayon Vase
A 20th Century Bridge, Built On Top Of An 18th Century Bridge, Built On To Of A 12th Century Bridge
This Plastic Bag Looks Exactly Like A Cat
Lastly, we were wondering if there are any particular themes or concepts that Anthimos Ntagkas finds work well when combining elements from the streets. The photographer told us: “Street photography is more challenging, artistic, and creative than other forms of photography and that was very appealing to me. It’s not only capturing the moment and the people in the streets but you also have to be an artistic director in order to combine people and elements from a fascinating perspective. It is very important to see the work of other street photographers, and always try to incorporate your own personal identity in your photos. Everything plays a role when trying to capture a unique moment. First of all, it is experience and persistence and sometimes it is only luck.”
One Of My Jalapeno Seedlings Loves Me
This Tree That Fell Over Then Said Nope, I'm Not Done Yet
This Woman Taking Her Pet Raven On The Subway
Perfectly Stacked Clouds
Our D.c. Office Building Got A Security Robot. It Drowned Itself
My Jaguar Hood Ornament Has Ice Fur
Found A Caterpillar Last Year And Kept Him. Today He Woke Up
Seems like Deilephila elpenor - somewhat common in europe. Such a beauty!
A Flood Can Be A Great Opportunity To Turn Your Home Into An Aquarium
These Taxidermy Stuffed Animals
The Position Of 1 Letter Changes The Meaning Of This Sign
This Table's Chairs Fit Perfectly
These Very Tiny Hummingbird Eggs
This Tree Is Growing Out Of Another Tree
This Plant Growing Along The Chains Of A Fence
This Giant Dandelion In Montana
The Way This Wood Split Looks To Me Like A City Skyline
My Flytrap Actually Caught A Fly
Birds Nest Inside Deers Rib Cage
Chalk Under An Electron Microscope
Where British Columbia's Silty Fraser River Water Meets The Pacific Ocean
Our coasts in the UK look like that nowadays- but it's not silty water - it's sewage that our (private!) water Co's are pouring into the sea, so they can keep our bill money for their shareholders. We have e-coli breeding at, at least, one beach. 84524810_g...c92a46.jpg 
This Pepper Looks Very Upset
These 2D Looking 3D Bags
This Strange Ice Formation In Norway
This Butterfly Has Both A Blue And A Red Shadow Produced From One Light Source!
It's a great example of how light bends, and difference in the wavelengths of different colors of light.
Truck Lines Up With Rocky Mountains
This Guy's Earbuds Made A Treble Clef
I Collect Rocks That Look Like Eggs
How weird, I collect eggs that look like rocks! We should meet up.
A Jenga Structure I Made. It Was Pretty Easy
Lightning Struck At The Exactly Moment I Took A Picture
My Friend's Septic Tank Looks Like Rafiki From Lion King
Sumpy sana squashed banana... BTW lemme out it stinks in here!
The Gum I Bought In Hong Kong Comes With Paper To Wrap Your Gum In After You're Done Chewing It
This Hill Near My House Looks Like The Default Windows Xp Wallpaper
Light Reflected Onto This Wall Looks Like Chromosomes During Meiosis
Russian Soldiers Looking Like A Windows 95 Crash And Drag
This Stain On My Table Looks Like A Dog Passionately Taking In A Sweet Smell
At This Airport, They Have A Machine That Will Print Off Free Short Stories For You To Read While You Wait!
Can it print my Ryanair boarding pass? If not, you lost a real opportunity to be helpful.
The Hotel I'm Staying At Has To Keep This Sign In A Locked Box
I live in Colorado. After recreational weed became legal people kept stealing the 420 mile marker on I-70, so the Dept. of Transportation moved the marker and made it 419.99.
Once saw a hotel do "419 + 1" (probably on another BP post). It wouldn't even occur to me to steal 420, but 419 + 1? Hang on, lemme go grab a screwdriver.
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I work in a fast food restaurant that uses numbered table tents so we can find who the orders go to. My old location was down the street from two universities and all the bars the students hung out. I worked overnights when they came in droves. I always threw away all tables tents that had the number 69. As a full grown middle aged adult woman it only took me one time to yell out that number in a crowded dining room full of drunk and high collage kids to know I was never doing that again
420 Definitions from Oxford Languages INFORMAL•US used to refer to cannabis or to the act of smoking cannabis. "a 420-friendly hotel" 20th April (abbreviated 4/20 in the US), considered as an occasion for smoking or celebrating the smoking of cannabis.
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There's a lot of urban myth around the origin of this correlation. Here's what the current Wikipedia page says about it, for what it's worth. As a '90s pot-smoking teenager, I always heard the police code legend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)#:~:text=The%20first%20High%20Times%20mention,Waldos%20appeared%20in%20December%201998.
I was in a hotel in Boise, ID circa 1999 and went walking to see if they had a room 420. They did, they still used actual keys. The key was in the door. Yes, I took that key. Still have it.
In high school my friend had a huge van, and I went with him when he knocked down a sign that had 420 on it, and then picked it up and stuck it in his van. He had hit it rather low, so it was touching the windshield.
I worked at a hotel where all the signs had brown text. The chain changed its decor and sent us new signs that had green text. The change hadn't been made official yet but someone had stolen the 420 sign. So they replaced it with the new one early. Meaning, for six months, the only green lettered sign in the building was 420.
Hitler’s birthday Yes.. but I don’t think this has anything to do with this being a cannabis code. Or am I missing something?
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There is beauty in the broken. Remember that next time you get self-reflective ;-)
Note: this post originally had 96 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
