Photo of camels in the desert (wih a twist)

[Are_grits_groceries]

@Earth_Pics

Muh.....

[tblue]

1. I can't make it out.

Can you? Can you explain?

[truebluegreen]

6. Looks like it was taken from directly overhead with the sun at an angle....

so we see white blotches of the camels' backs and long black shadows on the sand.

[bunnies]

15. Exactly.

The fact that the left sides of their bodies are in shade confirm it.

[Blaukraut]

2. Wow, that's really amazing

I thought at first that the camels were fish, which obviously made no sense at all. Only figured it out AFTER reading the explanation below the photo.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Extremely clever.

[zeemike]

23. Or extremely lucky

The conditions that made that illusion only existed for a brief moment in time and they were there with a camera.
Such things are hard to stage.

[Jefferson23]

4. Very cool, and the sand dunes..they are incredible to look at...the formation and smoothness

is extraordinary.

[rusty fender]

5. Awesome!

[etherealtruth]

7. Incredibly cool

Thank you!

[malaise]

8. Freaking wow!

Thanks

[Aristus]

9. Crossing the dessert?

Is that the world's largest dish of flan, or what?

[KittyWampus]

10. Sort of like a Zen Koan. WAKE UP!

[treestar]

11. Wow what big shadows!

Amazing photo!

[Cleita]

12. Very cool. Thanks for posting. eom

[spanone]

13. k&r...

[bunnies]

14. I looked at the pic and thought...

"whats so great about a pic of camel shadows?" I guess my time as a professional photographer wrecked it for me.

[beac]

16. Very cool.

[Motown_Johnny]

17. Are we sure about this? It appears that the shadows have shadows.

If what appears to be camels were in fact camels, then the dark oval areas below them would be shadows from the sun being directly overhead.

If what appears to be camels were in fact shadows, and the white lines are the camels.. what are the dark ovals?


The two figures at the top of the picture, near the center, even appear to have necks and heads jutting out from these ovals.

Without two light sources here, one overhead and one at a near 90 degree angle to overhead, I don't see how this is possible. Unless they have camels on Tatooine.

[burrowowl]

18. Cool!!!

[Tx4obama]

19. Photos: camel shadows on a salt plane - and zebra shadows

http://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/DE-1410039


And ZEBRA shadows

[Voice for Peace]

21. maybe good protection from aerial predators? non-human I mean. non-military I mean.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. The zebra ones look like a cave painting.

[aikoaiko]

20. Drone art.

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. Looks like they are the only shade -nm

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. I wonder if they use their shadow to plot their course.

[liberal N proud]

26. That is wild.

[IDemo]

27. Did you teach your black lab the "Who do you love" command?

Or was he/she just feeling friendly at the moment?

[kardonb]

28. camels

dessert is what you eat after dinner ; the place the camels are in is the desert, in fact .

[Are_grits_groceries]

29. That spelling was with the picture.

I spelled it correctly in the subject line, thank you very much.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. wow