Not quite abstract by randystreat

Not quite abstract

I have this rock sitting by the light pole in my front yard. I saw the pattern of the shadows cast on it by a shrub between the sun and it and quite liked it. Since I told you what this was, it's no longer very abstract.
It looks like a leopard curled up into a neat ball! Fav.
August 31st, 2022  
I imagined it to be a tortoise.
August 31st, 2022  
@will_wooderson Thank you will. At first I thought a tortoise.
@wakelys Me too. I shouldn't have opened my big mouth and maybe everyone would have thought I was on a trip to the Galapagos.
August 31st, 2022  
Wow, I almost saw the back of an animal! A great find!
August 31st, 2022  
Nice patterns of shadows on this rock.
August 31st, 2022  
if you had intended it to be abstract, you could've cropped it so that only the rock fills the frame. then we'd have a hey-day guessing what the heck it was. aces!
August 31st, 2022  
The patterns are so perfect that my eyes keep wanting to make it an animal!
August 31st, 2022  
The patterns convey an animal hiding in the brush. Very cool.
September 1st, 2022  
I thought the same thing as Vikki. A tight crop so that only the rock and shadow filled the frame and we would not have been able to tell what it was at all. Good eye!
September 1st, 2022  
Yes, the crop would make it very interesting to try to figure out. Then the shadows would look more like texture. It is still a very interesting image though. Nice spotting.
September 1st, 2022  
❤️⭐️❤️
September 1st, 2022  
Pretty pattern - at first glance I thought this was a curled up jungle cat!
September 1st, 2022  
Well spotted
September 1st, 2022  
Your narrative made me laugh. I now wonder what I would have thought it was if I didn't now know its a rock.
September 1st, 2022  
Nice find. Lovelyshadows.
September 1st, 2022  
fab shadows, thanks for your feedback on our blog!
September 1st, 2022  
Nice shadows, well spotted!
September 1st, 2022  
@corinnec It looked that way to me too Corinne.
@pyrrhula Thanks Ferry.
@summerfield I went back and looked at it cropped close. Looked like a rock to me, perhaps even more so. But then I knew what it is.
@grammyn I know what you mean.
@taffy Thanks Taffy.
@olivetreeann Thanks Ann. Still looks pretty much like a rock cropped close.
@shutterbug49 Thanks Debbie. I looked and the rough texture of the rock is more visible on a closer crop.
@joemuli Thanks Joey.
@jcoder Thank you Jessica. It did look like I cat when I first saw it.
@cdcook48 Thank you Chris.
@kjarn An animal crouched in the grass.
@haskar Thanks Hannah.
@pusspup Thanks Wylie. And you're welcome. I've enjoyed reading it. Are they your photos, your partner's or both? Who writes the blog? Inquiring minds want to know.
@craftymeg Thanks Meg.
September 1st, 2022  
Ditto to what others have said about curled up animal (I saw a cat) and crop to make more abstract. Neat find!
September 3rd, 2022  
@mcsiegle Thanks Mary.
September 3rd, 2022  
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