Your eyes aren’t deceiving you — the picture below really is a water rose.

Photographer Fer Gregory describes how he created the stunning image:

To take this picture I made a basic “rose” shape out of a plastic bottle, I taped it to a twig and then I placed them upside down to pour the water over it.

The shot is composed of several shots to make it look like there are petals, below are some photos that made this shot along with the set-up.

Impressive! I really did think that the image was entirely computer-generated at first glance!

Via My Modern Met.