What do you see in the image below? What caught your eye first, and what did you think you were looking at? I'll tell you at the end of the blog what this image is about.
We are living in a time of life where it's hard to tell what is the "real deal". With the help of technology, photos and images can be tweaked and made to look like something else. And even more than that, AI is now coming up with images just from descriptions.
How do you know what is real and what is not?
What makes it real?
What makes it not real?
Does it matter?
I prefer real. I'll just put it like that. Simple. What makes an image more fun, is when it LOOKS like something else, but it is the real deal. You know, like reflections! Strategically placed in a photo, and the angle and the distance can really play a game with your brain as to what you are seeing. I think those are fascinating.
If you just tweak an image to look like something, it can sort of be magical, but when you catch it in real time, there is something more fun about that!
Like these square waves I caught one day at a lake. Though it's a natural phenomenon, it isn't common, and that makes it unusual and more fun.
And I love catching repetitive colors and forms in nature, like the snow on the branches in the trees below.
Though there is nothing uniform in the branches as far as shape or size, the snow caught on one side and made this unique design.
Reflections always catch my eye. I see them anywhere and everywhere. Many times I've been sitting at a table in a restaurant, and if the top is really shiny and there are cool lights around, you will get something like the picture below.
Are the pictures real? Yes! I took them on my phone! At first glance you wonder - "What is that? What am I seeing?"
So these pictures are real, yet represent a uniqueness that is not common.
What are you focusing on in your life? What is real? What is not? What can you count on?
I know that my God is real and that no matter what is going on in the world, He will never let me down or leave me or desert me. He is always with me and has promised to not change. It is His nature - He CANNOT change!
So when the world looks crazy and things are changing fast, I choose to not look at all of the changes. I choose to focus on my God who always stays the same. I want the real, and not the phony or twisted and projected that we often get.
And the first photo/image? What is it really? If you look closely, you will see white ducks in the foreground. This picture was taken at night at a pond. It was close to Christmas time and there were lights in the background reflecting off of the water. : )
I love this picture and had it made into a tile that I have on my wall. It reminds me that things are not always as they appear. : )