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I was inspired for this prompt by the National Geographic Kids magazines I used to read when I was younger. They would have a page that showed various extreme close-up shots of different things–such as a sponge, a rock, or a peacock feather–and the reader was supposed to guess what the object was. This photo is not as close up as those photos were, but it has the same appearance. This is a photo of the inside of a rocket’s booster, a photo I took at NASA Ames in Mountain View. At first glance, you can’t really tell what it is, therefore, in a sense, “lying” to the viewer. The photo could easily mislead the viewer into thinking they are looking at something that is very different from what it is in reality, in material or size.