What do YOU see?

pareidolia - the tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in music.

After spending the day looking for meaning in cracks in the walls and stains on the rug, i was reduced to smoke photography...

For "mad minute words" inspired by @spirrowshoot's project and starting to take on a life of its own... Spirrow and @violeta have played, and so has @janim...

Another shot in my other album :)
http://365project.org/northy/just-because/2013-04-11

[Edie]

An exotic bird. This is very cool.

[☠northy]

@spirrowshoot @violeta @janim @frida

[Jeff Walker]

the virgin Mary

[summerfield]

i see a dancing woman dressed in a body suit. and a sausage. and i'm not kidding.

[cheryl]

a peacock head.. must work on my imagination skills...

[Sheila]

Does look like a bird to me too!

[Donna]

exotic bird head, mostly...

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

Yep... exotic bird head... like peacock but more exotic. Great smoke shot :)

[Kerri]

Very cool

[Kerri]

Kinda looks like a peacock head

[Maggiemae]

I definitely have this paridolia stuff - can't pronounce or spell it though!

[❀ Lynn]

I see a bird with a crest looking over its shoulder! Beautiful.

[Frida]

It's a toss up between the long neck and head of a dinosaur and a fancy mono bird. Whichever way, it's cool!

[joey d.Muli]

Jay Leno's caricature?-----n'way, it's smoking HOT !!

[jayn]

I saw the peacock head this time. Like these smoke shots, they're very cool

[Jani M]

Mouse embryo. Cool take on the word, these smokey shots are just what that word is all about!

[Rachel Withey]

Someone dancing with their hands in the air. Great shot and I've learned a new word!

[Sassik]

Thanks for the exercise! Get's my imagination going.

[Miley]

A peacock

[dh (delena)]

Now someone's mentioned birds it can't be anything else. Great word and picture.

[The Mysterious Mr Biscuit]

@summerfield You see a woman dressed in a sausage?

[The Mysterious Mr Biscuit]

I vaguely see birds, but what it suggests to me is a woman draped in something diaphanous. I don't *see* that, it's more an impression from the lightness and the smokiness of the, err, smoke. And yes, probably from my over active imagination :-P

[aurorajane]

Super smoke shot

[emily tull]

hummingbird

[inertia]

super shot.. I like it on the white background.. that is a lady with a long scarf around her neck =)..

[Katia]

FAV! :)

[Jann]

Speed skater

[Joanne Diochon]

@summerfield I see the dancing woman too, but I haven't managed the sausage.

[summerfield]

@Cheesebiscuit - no, don't be silly, no one gets dressed in a sausage except the oscar myer mascot. the sausage was beside her. but this morning it's gone; maybe someone had it for breakfast. :-D the woman's still dancing though with the diaphnous shawl you gave her. i fail to see the bird either. jann's speed skater? yes, but just vaguely. @jannkc

[Joanne Diochon]

I didn't see the bird or speed skater till someone else mentioned them, now I see them, and the dancing woman as well, and am getting a little dizzy.

[The Mysterious Mr Biscuit]

@summerfield Hey, who am I to judge? People do the kinkiest things, and if a lady wants to dress in a sausage, it's entirely up to her.

[Eeva]

This is so cool!

[Kitti Nelson]

Love the grace and elegance - I can see each of the things that others have found but my first thought was a madonna.

[Travis B❂urland]

In this one I see a young mother looking and taking in the new life she is holding in her arms.

[Amy]

Very cool. Was it hard to accomplish?

[Stacey]

Funny, I said the first thing that came to my mind was a peacock head, then I went to read other comments, seems I am not alone.

[beachradish]

This is cool ... a sensual grace and elegance. Nicely done!

[Linda]

A black Swan! Love it!

[Adam]

I see the racing motion of blood as it transports life through the chambers of the heart.

[Humphrey Hippo]

I see graceful curls. :)

[Jo]

A really lovely shot, and yes I see exotic bird head.

[Spirrow]

ooo I do see a hint of that bird, but if you spin it once clockwise, it's a fish underwater. Love it.

[Katie]

Gorgeous focus and colors here. My smoke attempts have been big fails.

[Talea]

I love this inversion!

[☠northy]

@atooner tx Amy... if you have the right supplies, smoke shots are relatively easy... i got a push challenge to do them last fall and spent the week figuring out how to make them work... so doing them this time round was pretty straight forward...

[kali]

once I see the eye I can't unsee it but the 'bird' looks kind of reptilian and distinctly jurassic to me,

[Jess]

First thing I saw was the bird. Now I can see most of the others - and the is freaking me out!
Wonderful image and fits the word stunningly; I just hope you aren't going to psychoanalyse all of our answers now!

[Nicole]

wow beautiful smoke shot!

[Lisa A Wood]

Bird is the word!!! WOW!! incredible!!! fav!

[Carla]

I see an egg and an eye and it feels a little like Salvadori Dali. Beautiful result!

[Bankmann]

Long-haired woman dancing... ;-)
Fav.

[Dominique]

Believe it or not, but I saw a violinist. Great photo.

[Deni]

I see a seahorse in there, & I didn't cheat & look at other folks comments first lol.

[Lisa Pouncy]

A guy with a quiff and a big, bulbous nose in profile. Great smoke shot, very jealous as I epically fail with these xx

[aikiuser (jenn)]

A dancer taking an exagerated bow--love this!!

[SquamLoon]

I saw My Pretty Pony's head! @denidouble

[Peter de Graaff]

I see fumes

[Gloria]

Fawn. Or perhaps faun :-). Fabulous btw...

[Johanna]

Bird head for me, too - but to be honest, I do see a hint of a sausage there, too. :D Lol! I'm yet to try smoke shots, but perhaps I should leave it to the people who are good at it - this is lovely!

[Amanda R.]

Beautiful and graceful. It totally looks like a mask. I love the words idea...365 can be so educational!