Woman in the Flame, Man in the tree


I took this photo at the Balloon Festival in Lisle Illinois. If you look closely, there is an image of a woman in the flame. (Our brains are hard wired to see faces, and to associate ambiguous images in nature and urban environments as being anthropomorphic, as in this other image of a tree which also suggests the geometry of a human face. ) They are both apparitions of the eye, but one is an artifact created by the exposure of light in the camera and the other by simply seeing and perceiving what is in the environment. Interesting....

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