If you look carefully at the cliff's reflection, you will notice distinct differences from the "real" cliff, as is often the case in paintings. This isn't distortion or refraction, it is artistic variation.
Besides, it doesn't even look like a photograph.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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