Creative Father Photoshops His Kids Into Surreal Scenes of Charm and Wonder

John Wilhelm's crazy worlds

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As someone whose Facebook feed is roughly 70 percent pictures of people's kids, I feel comfortable saying they get boring after a while. Luckily, digital artist John Wilhelm is around to shake things up.

He made a whole series of manipulated photos in which his three daughters go about their everyday routines—like presenting flowers to huge bison, gnawing down trees, working as coal-smudged engine drivers and battling cephalopods in the bathtub. Some of the images look more natural than others, but they all have a weird storybook quality to them that's a welcome relief from the Instagram/Pinterest-induced sameness I've been seeing.

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