Image Thread- Found Images

Whatdoknow? It worked.

I was shooting smoke and found ... HORUS, An Egyptian god

Not sure this is what you're looking for Uther, but is closest I have.

Another FAA member left a comment on it saying, "It almost seems like a live creature in the depths of the ocean."

BTW "It" is a water stain on our patio concrete. :o)

Bill Tomsa

https://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

A pair of somewhat embarrassed guards and their young proteges stand on either side of a proud grinning uniformed dignitary.

From photographs of forest tree branches, roots, and lichen.

Did someone say lichen... lol

Find the unintentional bunny! :)



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Susan Maxwell Schmidt
So-so Board Moderator and
Artist Extraordinaire

This guy appeared in my random mark making. I just did a yellow wash around him to pull him out of the background and added the greenish light of the cell phone.

Those look like cave drawings behind him too.

Susan,

Do you mean all the other ones were intentional?

Ed, Yeah! That's THEM! I hear they're a laugh riot, a couple of real fun guys!

Becky, that is AWESOME.

Bill, I would not have guessed that for about another ten or so guesses, I was sure it was a cut log.

Mien Lieber freund Hans. That whole smoke collection is, well, smoking'.

Me, I could take pictures of the moon all day long...

Thank you Uther!

Bark on an Aspen tree, reminiscent of the face of a curiously constructed gnarly brown horse, with one small extra ear flopping down over the right eye, and sporting somewhat snaggled and crooked teeth in the proximity of its thin front leg.

Uther, my dear friend - smokin´ what? bad? hot? great? ;o)

Now that we speak about the smoke images -here´s one that fit´s to the most strange experience i had in my entire live just a short while ago.



i was on my terrace enjoying the evening and a german beer or two and suddenly realized that something had changed - i looked around, looked at the house and -you may beleve it or not, stone me to death or not- felt as if the presence of my parents had diminished. It may have been a push of awareness that thy´re gone or really just an aura fading - i have no explaination for that - it just felt it. Their presence is not completely gone but it´s not the same as before. Really don´t know what to make of it. Part of me is happy - part of me is sad.

Susan, so far I've found a lioness, male lion, dog, the guy from the Russian Bath House that whips or massages bathers with a venik, the rock creature from Galaxy Quest and a few others but no rabbit... lol


Becky, Cool Horse.

Here's my Concrete Ally Oop as The New Yorker"s Eustace Tilley...

For those who don't know who Ally Oop is :

Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip, created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin,
who wrote and drew the popular and influential strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association.
Hamlin introduced an engaging cast of characters, and his story lines entertained with a combination of adventure, fantasy and humor.

Alley Oop, the strip's title character, was a sturdy citizen in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo.

And Eustace Tilley was on the Cover of the first issue of The New Yorker Magazine 1925, created by Rea Irvin

Here's my "Dichotomy".......in which, you, Uther , found what I couldn't see, till you said to look..........yep, the guy on the left is dead.......!!!

and here's your comment...................thanks so much for your insight and interest.



Uther Pendraggin

there is a lot of narrative here. Including the one where death is holding up the newspaper as though in a "proof of life" photo, but I think he's trying to convince the guy to the left that he's actually dead. Dichotomy indeed. Very fun!





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Seems today I've come out of a reverie, just in time to post to this amazing thread..........here's another, with 'found's others have mentioned,
including, goat,crown of thorns,you name it........enjoy, what do ya see?

And another, prob that's it..........here is the painting, plus, here is the 'muse' as My Muse painting separate, because, she finally admitted her
presence in my life, and I acknowledge her now, and just love how these things 'happen' NOT at OUR discretion.....we just suddenly know !!!



and here: My Muse..................and so lovely comment, thanks, Uther....................for seeing,caring............


Uther Pendraggin ........... "She is beautiful. She is responsible for so many fantastic works of art. Simultaneously awesome and inspiring. Just like her."

Some have seen waterfalls here.......I did too...................and, drapery/curtains.........

loved this comment, and thank you, Uther, againagainagain................

Uther Pendraggin "Dang it VIVA! Why can't I look at your work and not see the person staring out at me? (Well, in this case she- it's you isn't it?- is looking down concentrating on something.) She's beautiful."

I found this Grumpy Sightseer at Niagara Falls....

And a happy sightseer too! Looks like somebody added lipstick to it (I didn't):

I need to go take some snaps of our bathroom tile. That stuff freaks me out sometimes.

Here, my viewer, Mario Carta, made a great comment in response::::::::::::::::::::"Nature Morte"


Mario Carta "I thought at first glance I was seeing a sculpture of an elegant woman posing and reclining her head back while balanced against a pole.Then I read the description. The eye of the beholder, regardless it's a wonderful image Viva. "

VIVA, See? It's not just me.

BTW,Puppies!

Lois,

Yes, there have ben more than one bathroom I have been in and thought, "what kind of sicko designed these?"

Rose,

Hysterical! And so well done. Great grabs of the absurd.

Ed,

That very well could be an alley with an oops. Love the teeth.

Becky,

Keep em coming.

Hans,

Haven't you seen the movie, The Mask with Jim Carrey?

Uther, my friend, i have watched the movie but i cannot see why you ask me - where´s the context? O.o (i´m not fully awake so forgive me the stupid question please) :o)

Oh and here´s another one i like very much - i was shooting smoke and found ..... Mephistopheles

I intuitively knew why I painted this, but couldn't simplify the knowing into a title, so, I asked among the forum folk, and
a former, loved member, so prolific, much missed.......Alan Lehman.....blurted out in his way, without preamble:::::::::::

THE KISS !!!!!.........and so , I share what he 'saw' and named..exactly right for this. I cry every single time I look at this. shhhhh/my secret

One of only two paintings i ever did. On this one i found faceless heads sticking out of a wall of flames

A wise young owl with out-stretched wings sits serenely above a puppy, or maybe a rabbit, who is sitting with elbows bent, resting his face on his paws. From photographs of the textured and cracked ends of railroad ties.

I was hiking in Rocky Mountain Park and was intrigued by this tree stump with the opposing faces along the trail.

Kevin,
Welcome (I haven't met you before, pleased)
I see the two that are arguing and the one on the right is putting words into the mouth of the one on the left.
Other than them I see at least three others.

Becky,

Really! And the beak of the owl is a different bird, laughing!

You and Kevin need to go back into your posts and blow those up! Look in the code for the image and you'll see "...width=250&height=140' alt='Sell Art Online' title='Sell Art Online' style='border: none;" (for example) 4 X 250= 999. 4x140is 560 so just replace the 250 and the 140 with the 999 and the 560.



Comes out



I do like my drummer. OK he was unplanned, but aren't most drummers?

Hans,

I don't know if I'll be the first to say this to you, but, paint MORE.

Meanwhile, I see two figures (they look like stereotyped Arabs standing, one (left) has his hand on the shoulder of a 10 year old boy who is peering into an oven. The man is encouraging the lad that it is ok, look in the back (maybe there's a cookie?)

Maybe I'll look at it a different time and see a different story, but this one is redolent of Hansel and Gretel.

AlsoAlso



It's a good thing.

A thoroughly dejected forest mushroom, all gloom and doom, but only from the unfortunate chance landing of a single pine needle, which, on another day, in a different breeze, might just as likely have fallen into a smile.

I walked around a Camperdown Elm tree and from a certain viewpoint a part of this tree looked like a powerful man... It was early spring and there was no leaves on the tree ... but a tree trunk and thickest branches were covered by moss ... and this "Tree man" was a "Green tree man"...

I saw a Van Gogh landscape in a rusty, paint peeling metal panel on a truck.



This rusty metal panel became a forest fire.

When I finished with this one I saw angels in the lighter parts of trees near the top complete with halos. That's when I realized why I liked this one

Art, I see lots of people in those bushes! Starting with a Mark Twain type guy in the left of center top.

David King, You do see the gorilla in the fire there, right?And the rodent face in the blue?


Becky, That is very true! Probably true for most of us. Not just the mushrooms among us.

Yuri, I saw that in the contest too. I voted for it. (I voted for a lot of them in that contest.) He's mossy!

LOL...these are GREAT! And yep, bathroom tiles have a lot of little "creatures" within them.

I was shooting smoke again and found --- a Goat face

Say hello to Chuck. Chuck is from the woods. Created from photographs of knots in a tree trunk, dry grass, sticks, and dirt, he might be a philosophy major, or a budding scientist, maybe even a Beatnik poet. You just never know who you might meet in the forest!

Hans, did you change that or am I just seeing it differently?

Becky, You're winning this thread!

OK here is one that looks better before I upload it,

This one too.



He was the one I saw first then I saw Ivy.

I was experimenting with watercolor inks, dropping the pigments on a slightly wet canvas instead of using watercolor paper.
Tilting the canvas in various directions to encourage some of the colors to mix, the painting almost created itself with a little artistic guidance.
Horse head nebula comes to mind. I see the cosmos, galaxy, galactic dust and maybe a flying winged Pegasus.
I love the vivid colors of this abstract and how it evokes my imagination to play with what I see.

I do feel the actual tug on my imagination with that, Carlin.

It reminds me of a different find, but first this one.



I don't know how this image got to look like this. If I manipulated the perspective or what But that crown looks to me like it is made of the finest, thinnest crystal and the leaf makes a perfect bunny. The frozen drops look (to me) as prizes in the basket of her crown.

In that same shoot I found (eventually) this. It probably needs to stay small I'm at my camera's limits with it. It isn't a scene I can recreate. It'll never happen again and it really isn't something.

When I see Horseshoe Crabs, I see faces and helmets:

Uther, i don´t know what you mean ... it´s the very same image you commented on :o)

When I see a dried out Spider Crab Carapace, I see the beginnings of Medusa

When I see pointed nosed coconuts, I see RATS

When I see Mussel Shells and Crab Claws, I see the potential of a VULTURE

And when I see an Atlantic Ribbed Mussel Shell, I see the perfect Cockroach Body

Those are amazing Roger! I especially like the pointy nose coconuts, as I have a great fondness for rats, and have had several over the years who were my special friends :-)

Meanwhile… A despondent and gloomy individual with small sad green eyes and a glum expression on his deeply crevassed and weathered face peers out at his melancholic world, apparently uninspired by his wild and radiant uncombed hair and beard.

From photographs of tall dry grass and a gnarly knotted Aspen tree trunk.

When i was shooting smoke the other day i found ..... a big eared Gremlin :o)

Hans I see a nude trio dancing... cool!!
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This Rasta couple lived in my backyard for almost a year... I was sad to see them go.

Ed, Muahahahahaha - wish i could see what you see LOL

Finalllllllly, I see 'him'...........no clues,hahahaaaa....................




Carlin.........I see a foxy fox.......grinning...salivating, super image
Uther.............in Bunny, I see, love the Crown all aglitter,reflective....cool ! (well,cold,actually,lol)

Roger, I got stuck trying to figure out a horse joke.

You look like you're on your way for stock.

Your 'highness", I so love your spectral shining crown so reflective/bright.........fv

That was SOME magic water. I'm so glad I took the time and took some photos.

Roger,

Man, those cockroaches are SKEEVEY!

Or as Ed's Rastaman might vibrate, Ya' dem cockROAches dey Skeevey mon. Jah Mon!

Hans, don't feed that after Midnight!

Becky, I hope these are getting the looks they deserve!

VIVA, Him? like I have to pick out which one you're talking about? Jimmy Carter? It's like mount Rushmore fercryin out loud. Except there are like a dozen on this side and the other side, forget it. Too many to count. "Him."

lol, Uther..........I thought I'd say 'him' and watch you curdle, heheheheeeeeee.............there's a soccer team in there, so timely, hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa

Uther, i promiss :o)

a bad butt band of brothers. The one in the middle is giving you the grubby eyeball. The one to the right is dumb, but indestructible. The tall one is easy to lose, he's sort of a shape shifter.
The fourth one, to the left is quiet and sneaky and deadly!



They have a theme song.

When i was shooting smoke, the other day, i found ... a smokey EAR :o)

That's an ear, neck and face :-O

Abbie, thank you so much! :o) Wish i could see what you see :o) - i only see an ear.

Now i am curious if others see more than i see here. To me it is a x-ray of a worm - a unicorn worm lol

See? Mount Lion-more? Father Time? Satan! Dolphins? Nudes?

Hans, the concept of a Unicorn worm's X ray is enough for me on that one. That's tres uni que!

Ed, What I love about that is the looks you must have been getting from the hoi polloi as they saw a madman taking picture of the dirty parking lot. I recognize and admire your eye for the little things that decorate life.

VIVA, I think it was really nice of you to include Australia in your Italian Cloudscape.

Folks, this is day 6. This is your penultimate day for finding your found images and presenting them to the world.

I'll close this thread at 4PM EST on Tuesday June 26th.

This thread has been a great pleasure for me, and I thank all who have or will participate.

Uther, my friend we have to say thank you for the thread and the oportunity to show our most weird images :o) Who else would have come up with such a cool idea? :o)

Uther, I love what you said, , "...the little things that decorate life". nicely stated.

4PM EST, OK then, here's one more for now:

Uther, thanks for the thread... and if you're going to close it, then lets closed it on a happy note...

Thank you for the thread, Uther, and that you found Australia in my cloudscape.
Here's the Statue of Liberty, unplanned as such, once seen, never forgotten................

Lemme take the chance and post this one - hope you can see what i see .. a praying Mantis (from my series - up-in-smoke)

Finishing strong.

Ed, I don't want to be redundant but, I dig the Ice guy belting it out like an Irish Tenor is trumped by the cyclops.

Hans, Preying Mantis, swan, whatever, I like your smoke series, a lot (Like your castles better, but that's different)

VIVA, it seems insufficient to refer to you as my friend, Perfect timing for a Statue Of Liberty image, as well! ugh...

Aron, Welcome. Thank you for participating. Piece of advice? When in an image thread, take ADVANTAGE, blow your images UP. Such a beautiful landscape when you paste the code, find where Height and Width specs are and just change them. Divide the larger number into 1000(999) and then multiply the smaller number by that number so you keep the same ratio.



This "Found image" is what hit me when I was dancing the camera in front of a string of LEDs. I'll credit my muses with the result. It's quite possible they knew what was coming. I think it has been well demonstrated here that nature has a greater control of our actions and perceptions than we think. Image and meaning show up in ways and places we didn't expect. How far of a leap is it to the idea that there are intensions beyond our own?

I will close this with the definitive answer to that.

I had a period of very heavy communication. I wondered out loud and then I said out loud, and I asked directly if this was "reality" that was contacting me... (see you @ 4)

I had a period of very heavy communication. I wondered out loud and then I said out loud, and I asked directly if this was "reality" that was contacting me...

My wife and I were driving to one of our favorite places. It's a lobster shack named The Water's Edge in Phippsburg, ME. It is located at the edge of the water, oddly enough. and the road to it follows... follows... In truth I have no idea why the road goes the way it does, but it does. there are blind curves a plenty. By this point in the Summer I had her admitting that there was something strange going on. We had been on the road lots of times, and my wife had a sportster and a foot to go with it. She liked to whip around corners. OK.

I mentioned that maybe we would want to just be aware because you know, our luck there'll be a moose around the bend or some local will be meandering. Just an offhand comment. I'm not a side car driver. But the other truth is that we never had an incident on that ride. Nearly never saw a living person aside from people playing golf at the resort (Sebasco Estates) there.

Around a curve and up the hill and there right in the road were chickens as a little child was following them across the street. Why'd the chicken cross the street? There was a toddler aged child chasing it. Fortunately "reality" had given us a warning and we were prepared. Nobody was killed that day.

So, I can't help but ask, "Is this reality @&^#$in' with me?" Are they trying to send me a message?

So we got to the restaurant and pulled into our parking space (did I mention we go there?) I opened the door of the low slung auto (I'm 6'1" BTW) and I ducked to get out and as I lift my head out of the car. This is what I can't avoid seeing:



What is reality other than IS? They're the same thing. Personally, I've never seen clouds spell out words, and that is some strange wind to make an S.

If this was a one off, I could dismiss it. It isn't/wasn't. I'm very happy to know this. I hope you are too.

I hope you continue to search out the found images. And make them because even making them reminds the mind to stretch.

Just one more....

Bye...



Found in a Lobster trap I saved after Hurricane Jose hit the Maine Coast in 2017. I threw him into the ocean. If he could hide until his claws grew back he'd be fine.The next day I found a set of lobster claws no less than 7 inches for the crusher an 8 for the pincher that a monster sized lobster had lost in the storm. They were delicious.