It is not just taking in the whole of the image and in what your eyes perceive within it, but it is all those tiny details when you look really close, and how your imagination perceives them … and where that imagination leads you to …
Deep in the woods, June 2019, South Staffordshire, England. © Pete Hillman.
This is one awesome photo and kind of scary!
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Thank you Laura 🙂 It is kind of dark and brooding …
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It makes me wonder about how humans living thousands and thousands of years ago would look at that and think it surely held the spirit of a god, or demon.
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They did indeed think that Laura.
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A window through a tree darkly
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It could be a Green Man. A spirit of the greenwood.
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Those old pub names go back hundreds of years 🙂 Indeed 🙂
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Nicely done. I saw an ape, maybe a chimp but more likely a silverback given what seems to be a rather large head.
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Thank you David. I saw a giant apelike form, too, lying on its side.
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I think there might be some faeries in there.
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I think so too 🙂
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I see the face of a wooden giant in repose: deep dark eyes (the right with a twinkle in the corner), a stubby nose and a hint of a smile below that ivy… wait … perhaps it is an owl after all …
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I like the way your imagination works Anne 🙂
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I see a lying head, is a little bit creepy!
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When I first saw these roots my imagination formed the head too, and under exposing it does make it kinda creepy.
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