> The photos are not identical. The one on the right has sharper lines which causes the road to appear closer. The road on the left is blurrier so it appears to be further away.”
Must be something about your screen, the lighting in your room, your eyes, or something else. I used a hex editor (Frhed) and did an automatic comparison of the bits in the image files (by selecting Edit, Compare from current offset — starting at byte 0000), and the result was “Data matches exactly”.