Digital photography is reliable, consistent and increasingly easy to use. But when it screws up, boy does it screw up.
Image: hanamomoact/Twitter
Panoramic shots on the iPhone in particular seem prone to some bizarre aberrations that squash or stretch objects. So a photographer who goes by Hanamomo on Twitter figured out a creative way to turn this bug into a feature.
砂漠に棲む妖怪たち。
（パノラマ撮影中に被写体が一緒に動くと、妖怪が撮れちゃいます※iPhone使用） pic.twitter.com/KOb3a8vg0z— はなもも (@hanamomoact) August 27, 2016
According to Rocketnews, Hanamomo lives near Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates. By moving her camera in the same same direction some of these desert cats were walking, panorama mode essentially copies and pastes the same cat onto itself over time — like a glitchy Windows 98 window. The result is a very, very long cat with entirely too many legs.
パノラマ失敗で、新しい妖怪みたいになっちゃったジジさん。 pic.twitter.com/2KdMDsWNL0
— はなもも (@hanamomoact) August 26, 2016
Although the cats themselves are an affront to nature, it’s hard not to applaud hanamomoact for her ingenuity.