So simple but so lovely….
Did it take long for you to spot the man in the door?
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June 29, 2011 at 6:01 am |
nice
June 29, 2011 at 6:03 am |
It’s Elvis!
June 29, 2011 at 6:07 am |
it took me longer to spot the door than the man . instant
June 29, 2011 at 6:11 am |
Wow. Is it photoshopped?
June 29, 2011 at 6:19 am |
cool
June 29, 2011 at 6:20 am |
took me about 10 seconds; very good
June 29, 2011 at 6:26 am |
Nice! I couldn’t see it at first, now I can see nothing but!
June 29, 2011 at 6:36 am |
Spotted him instantly!
June 29, 2011 at 6:40 am |
A spilt second. It’s looks as though it is the face of Neil Gaiman.
June 29, 2011 at 6:40 am |
Saw it immediately. Yay pareidolia.
June 29, 2011 at 6:45 am |
stil looking , can u give me a hint?
June 29, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Please look from some distance. The shadow of the tree on the building/ door is creating a human face.
June 29, 2011 at 6:54 am |
Straight off. Is it shopped? It’s sweet.
June 29, 2011 at 7:05 am |
Saw it instantly
June 29, 2011 at 7:08 am |
What is it that happens in the brain with images like this? One minute you see nothing, then it’s as if a switch clicks and you see something. I can feel something happening in my eyes, too.
June 29, 2011 at 7:15 am |
I saw it instantly
June 29, 2011 at 7:20 am |
First glance, maybe because I knew I was looking for a face.
June 29, 2011 at 7:43 am |
2 seconds, but if you had NOT said ‘in the door’ it may have taken longer……you gave it away !!
June 29, 2011 at 8:03 am |
It took perhaps 20 seconds. Of course, now I can’t NOT see it.
June 29, 2011 at 8:38 am |
It’s Steven Seagal … and he’s pissed!!
June 29, 2011 at 9:18 am |
Saw him straight away. Cool illusion.
June 29, 2011 at 9:54 am |
About 10 seconds
June 29, 2011 at 10:04 am |
took me about 13,175,824,397 nanoseconds…
June 29, 2011 at 10:38 am |
Yeah yeah, some of you have super brains that see this stuff straight away. I have never been able to see those magic eye things either. So bog off with your ‘I saw it instantly’.
June 29, 2011 at 11:13 am
Neither have I, but this isn’t like that, this is pareidolia (seeing faces in shapes). Nothing to do with super brains, it’s just something some people see faster than others. It’s not related to IQ or whatever.
June 29, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Did you read the title etc before looking at the pic? and were then thinking about faces,ears, hair etc when you looked at the pic?
The face was the first thing I saw on the whole page, I then had to double-take to see the garage/garden, then I read the blub and had to hold back the ‘I saw it instantly’ . I agree it’s not an IQ thing.
June 29, 2011 at 10:48 am |
Patrick McGoohan?
Not a number but a free man…on a door?
June 29, 2011 at 11:05 am |
I see Rod Stewart… and can’t make me see anything else.
June 29, 2011 at 11:28 am |
Ace.
June 29, 2011 at 11:54 am |
It took about a minute of me looking at it, but after that minute I decided to back away from the computer screen and it was almost instant. Great effect.
June 29, 2011 at 12:18 pm |
Berber Anna – I know it’s not IQ related, it’s just annoying when people say triumphantly that they see things instantly and I don’t because their brains work faster in that area.
June 29, 2011 at 12:35 pm |
It’s Wittgenstein
June 29, 2011 at 2:12 pm |
Very nice. It took me several seconds. Of course, now I can’t unsee it. Crazy human brain!
June 29, 2011 at 2:21 pm |
So it would seem the real puzzle is spotting the shadows cast by the tree
I didn’t see it at first, but found it with Richards hint of a man in a door.
If it’s photoshop then it’s very clever.
If it’s a real picture then it’s very nicely captured.
June 29, 2011 at 2:31 pm |
Wow! That is cool. It took me about five seconds before it “popped” out at me.
June 29, 2011 at 4:18 pm |
What about the face in the trashcan?
June 29, 2011 at 4:50 pm |
It took about 30 seconds very cool
June 29, 2011 at 8:39 pm |
Maybe it isn’t a shopped photo, but perhaps it is a chopped shadow. Could the ‘artist’ have trimed the tree carefully on a calm day to sculpt the shadow?
June 30, 2011 at 7:25 am
The Earth rotates too fast.
June 30, 2011 at 1:17 am |
4 seconds. Reminds me of Robert Mitchum. The lawn could use a mow.
June 30, 2011 at 7:29 am |
It was a strange experience. For four or five minutes I was baffled. I was looking too hard at the shadow. Suddenly the negative space, where the shadow wasn’t, made the image in my brain. Wonderful!
It would be interesting to see how the face moved as the wind disturbed the tree.
June 30, 2011 at 8:29 am |
very cool!!
June 30, 2011 at 11:12 am |
That is amazing. Yeah, spotted it instantly.
June 30, 2011 at 5:14 pm |
took me about a minute……
July 1, 2011 at 11:19 am |
It took me a while. If not photoshopped: how fun to come across that! Can see a frontal of a face, and a profile.
July 2, 2011 at 5:37 pm |
Spent a few seconds looking at a cartoony profile of a guy with a boxers nose before seeing the ‘real’ face.
July 3, 2011 at 9:33 am |
Straight away. It looks like Jim Morrison. Would make a great cover for a Doors album.
July 5, 2011 at 10:22 pm |
image properties says it is Photoshop
July 6, 2011 at 6:20 am |
Clark Kent. Shopped.
July 8, 2011 at 6:34 pm |
There is no man, merely pareidolia.
July 10, 2011 at 12:45 pm |
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