Amazingly, one of these images is actually a screenshot from 'Minecraft'

A beautiful 'Minecraft' recreation of nature.
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Kellen Beck
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Amazingly, one of these images is actually a screenshot from 'Minecraft'
Moraine Lake in the Canadian Rockies at Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Credit: Stuart Forster/REX/Shutterstock

Moraine Lake in Alberta, Canada is a beautiful, picturesque scene: a crystal-clear lake surrounded by snow-touched mountains and green pine trees.

The lake's beauty is so captivating that a Minecraft player who goes by JakBB recreated the real-world scene in all its glory, sharing it on Reddit side-by-side with an actual photo of the lake. The visual mod that JakBB used makes it extra realistic.

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If you can't tell, the Minecraft recreation is the one on the left, and the picture on the right is a real photograph.

JakBB said he used external software to generate the terrain, but the project still took about eight hours to complete.

Fittingly, while JakBB's Moraine Lake recreation grew in popularity, an actual photograph of the lake was on the front page of the EarthPorn subreddit.

Earlier this month, JakBB posted another stunning Minecraft creation on Reddit: a recreation of the MacOS Sierra wallpaper.

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Yes, that's all created with Minecraft blocks.

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Kellen Beck

Kellen is a science reporter at Mashable, covering space, environmentalism, sustainability, and future tech. Previously, Kellen has covered entertainment, gaming, esports, and consumer tech at Mashable. Follow him on Twitter @Kellenbeck

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