Pisa - correct angle?

[onlymark]

Here are two pictures of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Before you open the spoiler, determine yourself which picture you think shows the correct angle of lean. It's as simple as that.

SPOILER: Click to show

It's a trick question. They are both the same picture and it is an optical illusion.
"The two images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa are identical, yet one has the impression that the tower on the right leans more, as if photographed from a different angle."

illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/2007/the-leaning-tower-illusion/

[bixaorellana]

My neurals must not be correlated correctly. I was wrong.

[onlymark]

I was too.

[bixaorellana]

Bixa and Mark
observe the
Tower

[onlymark]

I think the skirt suits me that length.

[Deleted]

I got it 'right' but for a different reason. I didn't realize that it was exactly the same photo, but I was thinking how pointless the question was since you see a different angle anywhere you walk around the tower.

[bixaorellana]

Um. I believe there was a reason Mark used the spoiler button.

[Deleted]

Yes, but absolutely every photo will show the "correct" angle since there is only one angle. It's like displaying two photos of the Empire State Building and asking which one shows the correct height.

[onlymark]

Every photo will show the 'correct' angle, true enough. But not if one has been altered, even simply by holding the camera at a slight angle especially when there is nothing else in the photo to reference it with.

I see I have to be a little more careful in the future as kerouac thinks too much. It's a bad habit I rid myself of many years ago.

[fumobici]

If there's no obvious horizon in the photo, it's all simply down to how the camera is held. And of course walking around the tower, at two points there will be no apparent lean to either side in any case.

I still remember feeling a little thrill seeing the bell tower for the first time in spite of my steely resolution not to.

[fumobici]

Obligatory tourist photos: