National Geographic's Shadow Camels

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Check out what comes from National Geographic! Steve Greenwood submitted this fabulous illusion via email: "If you check out the attached photo from National Geographic you will see that the black shapes are NOT the camels, the narrow stripes below the shapes are, the black shapes are the shadows of the camels, as this photo was taken from overhead. Good stuff!". Now here's another asignment for you: try to find one that has someone riding it. I'm not sure, but I think I even spotted two with riders on them. Another thing, is there one with two humps on it's back? Am not sure, but let's try t find one! Thanks Steve!






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  1. Anonymous ricardo_africa 

    really nice picture

  2. Anonymous Chris 

    That's quite beautiful, National Geographic photographers are the cream of the crop, in my opinion.

  3. Anonymous db 

    Why do some of the shadows seem to have shadows?

  4. Anonymous Daft SPARTAN-117 

    haha, thats great. I love the pictures taken by Nat. Geo. and this ppic is really cool looking

  5. Anonymous joe 

    Very cool image, though I find it strange that the shadows cast by the camels don't go over other camels. Dosent seem right to me...anyone have any suggestions? The best example of what I'm talking about can be seen on the 4th camel in from the lower left.

    Cheers.

  6. Anonymous Merlijn 

    thats nice

  7. Anonymous rohtop 

    you can say that Chris!
    beautifull picture!

  8. Anonymous STATIC 

    Thats totally awsome

  9. Anonymous Pouch 

    to Joe... the sun is at a lower angle - the shadow of the camel is going right under the other camels legs. and DB - the shadows that seem to have shadows are caused by the side of the camel that isnt getting sun light - the "dark side of the camel" per say.

  10. Anonymous scott 

    Joe, the camels' shadows do go over other camels, its just that the contrast of the shadow is much easier to see on the sand than on the other camels. Think about it; if you stood in someone else's shadow, it would go over you, but you wouldn,t look very dark compared to that person's shadow on the ground.

  11. Anonymous chris 

    @joe
    shadows are cast from each camel downward, no matter how deep down the sun already is. so no shadow from one camels back can cast on another camel of the same size. the shadow of your 4th camel from the lower left is of course cast onto the legs of the camel next to it. but that can't be seen from the top, since the foto is taken from a 90° angle
    cheers

  12. Anonymous grant 

    the reason shadows aren't cast on the camels themselves is because of the angle of the sun, the shadow goes under the camel, i guess a little bit of shadow on the legs, but can't see that from the angle

  13. Anonymous grant 

    actually i was wrong, didn't look enough. there are shadows. simply look over one more camel, the group of two just right of the ones joe was talking about, you can see that a shadow is indeed cast onto another camel

  14. Anonymous joe 

    Thanks guys and gals for clearing up the mystery of the camel shadow for me :)

  15. Anonymous dylan 

    booooooooooooooooooooo

  16. Anonymous Dylan!!! 

    Veeery clever picture!! I can see more than two riders on the camels though.And there are't camels with two humps on their backs,they're the riders.

  17. Anonymous fabio 

    great pic!!!

  18. Anonymous lymon 

    dylan with the little d is stupid. why did you say boo you loser.

  19. Anonymous Francis E. Lawlor 

    Why are the camels white? Are they all albinos ?
    Or was the Photo "doctored" ?

  20. Anonymous HighDesert 

    Strange! Where are the SHADOW PEOPLE????

  21. Anonymous quirky-gal..x 

    neat picture ♥in it

  22. Anonymous kittypoo 

    Neat cool awsome!!!


    Meow!! oops!

  23. Anonymous Anonymous 

    How come they have 2 shadows each?

  24. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i think some of the camels cast shadows on each other and some dont is because some of the camels are up on dunes and some aren't

  25. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Beautifull!!! especially the colors of the sand.

  26. Anonymous Tawn 

    Wow..this is a beatuiful picture! I see at least 2 camels with riders.

    BTW...love the Random Illusion!!

  27. Anonymous Anonymous 

    No riders, just crossed shadows. Beautiful picture!! Love it!!

  28. Anonymous Anonymous 

    ITS BLACK CARDBOARD CANT YOU SEE!!!! the 'shadows'are standng up.... but it might be becouse of somthing else




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