What do we see?

A couple days ago, From Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud was assigned to read. This animated cartoon was about how does people see an object, another person, or another character. S. McCloud says that humans are self-centered (Alberti 459). He shows some pictures like an outlet, a car, and a can that we sometimes look it like a face.



I found this picture a few years ago from an internet site. Unfortunately the photographer was anonymous (or it was not written on the site). If you just analyze the picture, there is nothing special. Three cranes are flying, two males are paddling a small canoe. However, I think, most of people can find another image from it; you might find a facial image from the photo.

I do not know the photo is a composite picture or a real picture. Whether or the photo is real or not, we see two different images at one photo. It could be depended on a person what image he or she sees first. I saw a smiling face first, but my sister said she saw just birds and fishermen first and took a couple seconds to see the smiling face. I think it is really amazing to see an image many different ways. Even though we do not try to find different images from it, we just recognize them.

-Min-