Just to inform you, I updated another category with recent optical illusions. This time it was our famous Billboards section. As I asked you in my previous post, if you have few spare minutes, check the category I mentioned, and see if all the new links function properly (no broken links, false forwards etc..). Don’t know if you missed our recent Google indexing problem, but if you are a webmaster, or post on some forums/communities/social bookmarking sites regularly, you can help us by linking some of those illusions, and get Google re-index us once again (I fixed noindex/nofollow html error we had). For today’s optical illusion, here is another user submitted one.
Carrie Causey wrote: “Here is an illusion for you – My husband took this picture this morning of a GIANT KILLER SNOWMAN!!! Not really… check out the second picture from the night before. You can see that he just took a picture of the snowy car top and it blended in with the ground behind. I thought it would fit well on your site.” The other photo can be found inside this article. Boy, I’m sorry I didn’t get that amount of snow this winter.
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that’s cute!!
Hahahaha I thought it was at least a normal sized snowman
fooled me
what a pity!
Cute, but there are too many depth cues, that make this obvious.
It looks like it was shot with a wide-angle lens, which makes the house in the background look too far away. Wide-angles emphasize depth, like taking a picture of someone’s face close-up with a wide-angle makes there nose look huge.
Using a telephoto lens, would have made it even more effective reducing the apparent depth in the photo.
Actually, I didn’t use any special lens. Both of these pictures were taken with a 2.5mp camera on the AUTO setting. The car antenna really gives it away, but at first glance it’s pretty convincing!
Awwwww… It reminds me how I didn’t make even one snowman last year… :(
Anyways, Love this one. The stars in the backrounf of the second pick look fake… or are they snow….
really? i thought the antenna was kinda a tip off or atleast i was wondering what it was cuz it didn’t look like a stick
Ha thats funny i thought it waz a big one
Hey Ron Parker…Get a life
“*This* house is a toy, *those* houses are faarrr away …”
That’s cool!! I like it!
Carrie you rock totally! Wow, now I know a famous person!
yes, Rosina, the things in the second pic ARE snow!
kl pics, but in the 1st one, at the bottom of it, u can c a black kinda line, outlining the edge of the car. oh well – its still good.
oh and yh i agree with chris.
not a very good illusion.. and who mad that a 5 yr old chimpanzie
i feel stupid i thought it was big at first :(
i agree with this guy ^ ..funny!
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That’s cool. I like taking shots like this. To me it was given away by shadows being cut off. and the big shadow of what would seem to be a head