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Assorted Dried Beans

Shades of sheep in pens look like dried beans in this drone photo.

Source/credit: James Sexton

These assorted dried beans are actually just different colored sheep in pens at the Jamestown livestock markets. This drone photo is taken from so high that you easily recognize the sheep. And without surrounding context it is a classic case of Forced Perspective.