The Pareidolia Thread

[Noriabooks]

Maybe it was the pic including the faces with mouths and tongues from poster River in post #4? Maybe that was stretching pareidolia just a smidge?

Actually my question is much broader than just that one example.

 

[Butter!]

Why lots of people think that jokes are serious commentary?

 

[MRC_Hans]

One of my hobbies is hi-speed micro photography. I have photographed hundreds of water drops as they fall into still water then rebound as a column of water with a perfect sphere at the top. Occasionally, for various reasons, the rebounding water column will be disturbed and form random shapes. More often than not, I see a distinct recognizable shape in the water which is sometimes uncanny.

I thought it might be interesting to see what others see in these random drop images.

Drop #1
What I see:

Profile of Charles Darwin

[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/fishbait/DSC_0096-1.jpg?t=1292367176[/qimg]


Crop of #1
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[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/fishbait/dd.jpg?t=1292367302[/qimg]

Uhm, no. I se nothing. Sorry.

Hans

 

[Planigale]

I've shot hundreds of 2 drop collisions. The timing is critical!

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[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/fishbait/DSC_0095.jpg?t=1278432404[/qimg]
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Photographing a 2 drop collision while holding the dish in my hand required steely-eyed yogic concentration!

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[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/fishbait/DSC_0128.jpg?t=1279043816[/qimg]

Wonderful pictures, but the first thing I noticed is that fishbait might not be human; what appears to be a hand seems to have one thumb like digit and three finger like digits. These pictures are clearly products of alien technology!

 

[CORed]

Wonderful pictures, but the first thing I noticed is that fishbait might not be human; what appears to be a hand seems to have one thumb like digit and three finger like digits. These pictures are clearly products of alien technology!

One thumb and three fingers? Not aliens, just Disney cartoon characters.

 

[NoahFence]

Drop #3

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[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/fishbait/hhh.jpg?t=1292367473[/qimg]

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[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/fishbait/DSC_0095-1.jpg?t=1292367566[/qimg]

Admiral Ackbar

 

[alfaniner]

The Evil Clown from the new retelling of Stephen King's "IT"?
or
A very relaxed sleeping dog?
Either way, I'm letting it lie...