This is actually really freaking cool. I'd like to see if such a thing could be find on like Google Earth or the likes. That would be even cooler.

Though it is rather easy to understand it, this is an excellent illusion. It looks perfectly a herd of shadow zebras would look like. Two thumbs up.

reminds me of the camel one

cool!

The cool thing about this one is that it is a real illusion, no photoshop here.

sweet...................2nd comment

Very cool indeed.

wow... took me a while to figure it out too i thought it was a cave painting and the shaddows were like a stipy kinda a thing. now i get it though. its like a bird's eye view of zebra's running. and yes i think it counts as an illusion

it is cool but in response to dave i doubt it i can zoom right into my front garden and my car is way to blurred the clsoer i get so i dont think the google eath cams as good as the are are up to scratch

This really is cool, and yes, it should be considered an illusion. I don't think I ever would have seen the zebras had I not read your description. Way to go!

Fake...Photoshopped

it looks like an old cave painting, with zebras photoshopped in. awesome pic.

although this isn't the best example of this type of shadow illusion i've seen (and yes it is an illusion and is called a shadow illusion) it is however a nice looking well composed and interesting photo in its own right. the best example of this illusion i've seen was done with a black cat and it's shadow.

This is actually really cool! I'd say for sure it's an optical illusion...it confused me at first with the angles, that's what thru me off. I love it.

I didn't see the stripes at first. Then came the "ahh" moment when I saw it. Amazing!

That is way cool. I like that one a lot.

how does it work?

The Camel version was much better, this one is too obvious.

No. I dont think this should be an illusion because the zebras are in plain sight! It does look pretty cool though.

Thats pretty cool. Never seen it that way before.

i don't get it

I think it only works because the zebras are perpindicular to the sunlight. If they were parallel with the sunlight, i.e. facing the sun or facing away from it, you would just see the zebra and a long indistinguishable shadow behind it.

This works because the zebras are perpendicular to the sunlight. If they were parallel to the sunlight, i.e. looking into or walking away from the sunlight, you would see the zebra an an indistinguishable shadow.

it looks like a cave drawing from an ancient people to me

This is the shizzle to my nizzle, fo'rizzle!

wow i NEVER guessed the camel one but after this one... omg it is INGENIOUS.... INGENIOUSSSSSS!!!!

I dont get it..

To me it looks like a top view of a bunch of zebras and their shadows..

am i missing something????

The first thing i think of when i see black and white stripes are zebras.