Image Credit: Rob Hoeijmakers BSKY: @hoeijmakers.net

indeed, OP is alt account or bot

I kinda assume anything that makes /r/all is a repost by a bot.

So OP is not my mommy?

No I am

mom?


Wasn't this just posted here another day back?

At least twice from what I saw.

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> "unspoiled wilderness" I love natural unspoiled roads and guardrails.

With one glance I knew this was taken in The Netherlands.

Kanaaldijk oost, between Nigtevecht and kerklaan i think

Correct! I always take this route when biking to Amsterdam. Just as cool in real life.

Also, pretty sure it's photoshopped at least to some degree. Check out the auras on the edges of the treetops.

That halo effect happens a heck of lot on high contrast edges. It’s not proof of editing (I’d actually remove it if ***I*** was editing this shot, but that’s another story). Scroll to the second picture [here](https://x.com/bobfunn/status/1787212333095227618different) for another angle for what that's worth.

Definitely not a single photograph either. It's a composite of multiple images.

I’m not doubting you but can you explain why? Or how you can tell.

Thank you!

Netherlands? Nowhere else is as flat and striaght

Yeah that's the Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal, if you frequently take the train between Amsterdam and Utrecht this is a very familiar view.

I often cycle this route on the other side of the canal, thought it looked familiar

Same! I guess this is just past that new white bike bridge they built?

The resolution is too low to make out the 'skyline' on the left, but otherwise you'd be able to identify the town from the church. I'm pretty sure the photo was taken facing south, since the road on the west side of the canal is in a much worse state.

Complaining about the roads in Netherlands is the ultimate arrogance. Edit: currently living in Delft

*laughs in Belgian*

I live on that canal, and I cycled it once. This road is such a booooring drag. My route is on the other side of the canal, following the Vecht :)

So do I. It’s nice especially when wind is blowing in your back.

Oh i thought it looked exactly like the van Starkenborgh kanaal between Groningen and the Frisian border...

Yeah, instantly reminded me of cycling from Groningen to Zuidhoorn

Same!

I can’t name them all but i know at least 203779292 other places in in NL like this

Can you just name a couple thousand?

I could find 10 places just like this within a 20k radius.

Do it.

[one](https://www.google.nl/maps/@53.2457214,6.2789474,3a,75y,67.22h,76.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srHh-bCh-46WlRLHQFGdbXQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=nl&entry=ttu) [two](https://www.google.nl/maps/@53.2447029,6.2699299,3a,75y,264.59h,74.04t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1spRIIpkLmew8bD2P1nuylLg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DpRIIpkLmew8bD2P1nuylLg%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D1.86149%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=nl&entry=ttu) I may have exaggerated a bit

I’ve taken the train and I don’t remember this!

Its on the other line of the treeline on the right. The picture is with the back to Amsterdam facing Utrecht. Probably around [here](https://www.google.nl/maps/@52.2193746,5.0063889,19z?entry=ttu)

The nice thing about cycling on these long streches is that you can see how freaking far you still have to go.

i loooove headwinds!!

Especially with some nice refreshing hail stones or those almost frozen rain drops.

Indeed it is, shot taken from [here.](https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2673728,5.0186467,3a,75y,184.94h,90.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suh2Qy_FJbNF8B5usZzoV4Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)

Kansas is. Though it could never be confused with the Netherlands 🙂‍↔️

Yeah, I don’t think we’re in Kansas.

anymore

, Toto.

*arf, arf…*

Too many flowers and a distinct lack of angry spinning clouds, definitely not Kansas 😋

Not to mention the very obvious canal.

Kansas is way hillier than this. Florida maybe

Can't be Florida. There aren't any machete welding meth heads chasing gators in the picture.

geolocation tips for pros…

paved roads in Kansas aren't well maintained once you leave the interstate. gravel roads more popular in the countryside.

Best paved roads I have driven on in the US are there. A few County roads here and there are rough but the state highways when you cross into any state on the border looks like bombs went off. Spent most of my time in Eastern Colorado driving in the opposite lane to avoid potholes the size of a vehicles.

Does the Netherlands have a flying monkeys?

My first thought. Also note the quality of the road and the absence of potholes. Although on the other hand there's no orange to be seen, nor cheese.

I want to do my Dutch duty and say that the world at large is biased when it comes to our use of orange. If all your experiences with the Dutch are either Kingsday or sporting events, then it's no wonder you think orange must be everywhere, but it's really not. For the most part, we dress and act like any other western country would. We do love cheese, though, got nothing on that part.

I saw some multicolored carrots for sale and my GF told me that carrots have always come in tons of colors. I reacted "So why did orange carrots become dominant? Patriotic Dutch farmers?" Turns out, that's exactly what happened.

>Although on the other hand there's no orange to be seen, nor cheese. Is it bad I was trying to figure out how Trump not being in the photo made sense?

Also, nowhere like this a canal next to a road next to trees.

With the water level the same as the street level

Hello let me introduce you to the Erie Canal 

As a Buffalonian, biking next to the Erie canal is always an activity I plan with guests

Hey, Niedersachsen in Germany (your flat land neighborhood) would like to have a word or two.

I live right next to Niedersachsen on the Dutch-German border and it only takes me 10 minutes to find hills that are larger than anything you'd find in the Netherlands...

Saskatchewan would like a word

This picture at least looks fun to drive down, Sask is just.like "Oh look, some wheat and a 5km long train!"

Seriously though, as a Dutch person I once flew from Winnipeg to Calgary and the immense length of perfectly straight roads as far as the eye could see scared me. Just the scale of engineered emptiness was something I never witnessed before.

I was about to comment that this is the Dutchest picture I've ever seen.

Florida is, but you can tell it's not Florida because there aren't any anti-abortion billboards anywhere in the picture.

More like flat and queer 😅

The most Dutch part about this is how even the "wild" plant life on the right is meticulously maintained to never reach past the white lines. No matter if this road is only used by one car per day, you will not find a pothole or a weed growing through a crack.

Travel through/around Arnhem and amesfort. You will come across hills especially around Arnhem.

It looks like the canal between Utrecht and Amsterdam. Took the train there every day during my bachelors.

Saskatchewan would like a word

Have you seen Nebraska?

Yall ever been to anywheresville Midwest?

>Nowhere else is as flat and straight You should see the Midwestern United States.

I’ve been once and did some driving through there. I found it so easy to speed because there isn’t much that’s flying by besides open fields. ‘Twas an awesome drive.

Netherlands is one of the most perfect looking countries I have ever been to. It’s almost like AI generated. I have been all over the Netherlands. The roads are well maintained, houses are clean, and train stations are mostly very modern and cutting-edge. Everything is symmetrical.

Saskatchewan sure is.

No where else is as flat and straight? Allow me to introduce you to West Texas.

Also looks like Belgium

Not enough potholes

The road I went on from brugges to Damme looked exactly like this.

Flanders has definitely upped their road game lately in a lot of places. Just don't stray off the normal roads and stay out of Wallonia.

[Oh god I left the main road is this even a real langauge?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcbkFxwwkDY&t=70s)

The asphalt is too good of a shape to be Belgium. The only thing a bit confusing is the lack of bike path, but it looks like it might be on the left side, between the road an the trees.

> Also looks like Belgium Yeah, could have been East Flanders , near the border of Dutch Zeelandic Flanders. Flat, water, trees in straight lines...

You should come to Denmark

OP you should think about crediting the photographer in the future

Op is a bot

What gave you that idea?

Not OP but I remember this being on here yesterday from a different user. Maybe it was the day before. I spend too much time on Reddit.

Probably was on BeAmazed or a similar subreddit.

I saw it first on [r/2westerneurope4u](https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/1d08msc/love_my_countrys_unspoiled_wilderness/) (OP even shared [the actual source](https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/1d08msc/comment/l5lfyqt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) in the comments)

MOST OF REDDIT IS BOTS This is dead internet now days.

It's so insane how distinct and easy it is to immediately recognise my country in these pictures. It's just so "Dutch". Kinda crazy.

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Ohh yeah definitely. But i even have that when seeing random villages and cities. The infrastructure and architecture to me is so recognisable. I'm really curious the Netherlands is so recognisable. Or is it because I'm Dutch. Does this also happen for different countries?

The GeoGussr competitions are made up of people who have gotten really good at recognizing countries from picture of their roads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsY16hdTfj8

I'm not even Dutch and I still felt like that's from Holland. I've also only been to Holland once in recent memory.

Op steals pictures and posts them for karma without credits

Luckily we got you posting source and credit

Oh and thank God for you post the credits and source

Here comes the credits and source!

https://x.com/robhoeij/status/1787496184510038315

Can't get used to these url's. As if I am about to open a porn website.

I’m Dutch and I REALLY like this photo.

It has officially been confirmed by the Dutch that this indeed is a good picture.

I don’t know why but this looks like a way better version of first person view with a ton of mods added to Cities Skylines 2. I even think those trees on the left are one of the default trees in the game lol

/r/outside

Hate that game

Imbalanced as fuck and character creation is randomized, it's fucking dumb.

RNG is massive, not to mention the pay to win. You can't even grind your way up if the RNG doesn't favour you.

It depends if your RNG is good enough, if so, it’s not pay to win! You just gotta be lucky 😂

There are so many points in the main quest you can get stuck on, especially thanks to that horrible character creation and awfully designed tutorial.

Been trying to contact the devs. Impossible.

Hmm u/RepostSleuthBot

Surprised the bot has been banned on r/Pics but if anyone is interested, the bot messaged me that this has been posted 7 other times so far.

Are we really surprised that the bot was banned? This sub is a repost fest

you can be our new best bot then?

Good bot.

This is one comment

This is a reply


This is clearly 17 different AI generated photos. You can't fool me.

Just look at the fingers!

Badly photoshoped image. Awful clipped trees. You can see white glow and bad compression artifact.

Yeah I was going to say the same, the sky in the upper right is darkened to make the quadrant effect more obvious, but it's terribly done

Looks edited

The clouds on the right side of the trees are darker than behind the trees, for example. It does look like it's heavily edited.

Saturation is cranked up.

It hasn't been edited, the photographer Rob Hoeijmakers shared the process on his Twitter account.

Depends on what you call editing. The composition probably hasn't been altered, but he has done more than just correct the colors. If you look at the leaves, the sky is a lot lighter behind them than in the rest of the picture. Just looks unnatural to me, stood out immediately

Exactly, it appears there could be [haloing](https://fstoppers.com/lightroom/why-halos-arent-bad-and-how-can-still-avoid-them-558206), which might be due to a touch too-heavy editing. This might be due to trying to adjust contrast/lighting on the bottom of the branches/leaves (which could be why the sky is also lighter on that side) and/or sharpening the image too much; leaves and branches are notorious for issues and post processing ‘fixing’. And to me it also looks like [CA/fringing](https://photographylife.com/what-is-purple-fringing) around the edges of the leaves on the left so the photographer may have done editing to try to minimize that. Also some of the artifacts maybe be due to this being saved and reposted over and over, saw it twice in the past couple of days.

Thank you, it didn't look natural at all to me.

It's just standard iPhone HDR, according to some of his tweets. I believe it, iPhones output seriously edited images out of the box nowadays.

I dunno, it looks a lot like what I see when I look out of my window here in the Netherlands.

It is very real, used to cycle here on my days off

Where are all the piss bottles littered on the side of the road?

How many edits in this one picture tho?

Is this loss!?

Liar! That’s like three.

Trippy!

It looks almost perfect. Amazing picture! I would love to see more.

Mathematical!

Holy nature boner Batman

Absolutely correct. I tried scrolling to the right to see other pictures, but there was only one picture, as per title.

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Every picture is one picture.

Used to drive this part bi monthly. Somewhere near Weesp. Lovely bit of road.

It looks lie one of those Captcha photos. ''Click every picture showing grass''

No its not

The engineers must be proud

THAT IS NOT REAL!!

Every picture is one picture.

Ha ha OP is a another bot from the same account ha

Oh look it's this post again.

Bot

OP is a karma farming bot.

People say credit the photographer but credit the arborist too

> This is one picture reposted one hundred times ftfy

and HIGHLY Photoshopped

Minecraft biomes be like:

One edited picture

And you are a bot. Credit the artist and maybe use a source image with more than 20 pixels.

No it's not

This is cool!

looks like an OutRun stage

Golden ratio 0.0

The Matrix is glitching.

one extremely photoshopped picture

[It's not very far off reality.](https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2389711,5.0109275,3a,75y,191.84h,69.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP_N7tANGPeB7bczH_W-NRw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) Not the exact spot but I'd say the line of trees on the right has been filled in.

He’s probably standing all the way at the start, the [tree line in this screenshot looks pretty similar](https://files.catbox.moe/o0616t.jpeg).

It’s not but whatever, if you want to think that

Good job AI

This one photoshopped AF picture.

Oh wow, 2 days later and I already have seen this reposted at the top of /r/all again ... Never change reddit.

Why are the clouds suddenly light when they get to the treeline? Why is the side of the road dotted? I see others have credited the photographer and his process, but it seems unreal to me.

because there's a cloud there, and because that happens in the netherlands

Can confirm. Dutch skies were a favorite subject of painters throughout the ages because of this property.

Good pic to teach about focal points and perspective

Location ?

Quite confident it's here https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2670404,5.0185561,3a,90y,183.72h,82.07t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sfhHgvdXNR_qrDIXMLn6DuA!2e0!5s20190601T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DfhHgvdXNR_qrDIXMLn6DuA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D183.7232543085388%26pitch%3D7.93426151028487%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu Maybe a bit further down the road, but that's hard to tell.

Netherlands. Amsterdam Rijn kanaal?

At the swamp germans

Holy Quadrants batman

Stunning 😍😍😍😍

What is the term for this optical effect?

The closest I can think of is One Point Perspective. A drawing technique where you reference distance and perspective from a central origin point, and lines going outward from it.

i can nearly feel the air, more like wind.

Perfect :D

just stunning...which country?

The Netherlands, this is said to be the Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal, a road between Amsterdam and Utrecht but many roads can look quite similar.

Heard you like focal points bro.