Someone said it's fake

My friends said this look like fake when they first saw the picture.
So, I just showed them these two photo. One from real object and another from a picture. You guess.

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I'd say your friend is right, the flower does look like a painting. Isn't it amazing how the mind works?

Lovely flower and photo

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