# We know that a concave mirror always form either real and inverted images or virtual and erect but i can't understand what is happening here

For a real object, a concave mirror always forms real and inverted images when object is between infinity and focus and forms virtual and erect when object is between focus and pole , but in the following example , why is there a virtual and INVERTED image Example: When we look in the spoon from concave side

• That's a real image, why do you think it's virtual? You can look at real images without projecting them onto a screen. Mar 12 at 17:20

Expanding a little on Sebastian Riese's comment, your face is much more than $$R=2f$$ away from the spoon. [The spoon is very curved, so the radius of curvature $$R$$ is small (probably less than 5 cm).] A ray diagram will show rays converging to points on a diminished inverted real image between $$f$$ and $$2f$$ from the mirror. But there's no screen, so the rays continue on beyond the image and enter your eye as rays diverging from points on the image.