Giant Dwarf Snowman

Just to inform you, I updated another category with recent optical illusions. This time it was our famous Billboards section. As I asked you in my previous post, if you have few spare minutes, check the category I mentioned, and see if all the new links function properly (no broken links, false forwards etc..). Don’t know if you missed our recent Google indexing problem, but if you are a webmaster, or post on some forums/communities/social bookmarking sites regularly, you can help us by linking some of those illusions, and get Google re-index us once again (I fixed noindex/nofollow html error we had). For today’s optical illusion, here is another user submitted one.

Carrie Causey wrote: “Here is an illusion for you – My husband took this picture this morning of a GIANT KILLER SNOWMAN!!! Not really… check out the second picture from the night before. You can see that he just took a picture of the snowy car top and it blended in with the ground behind. I thought it would fit well on your site.” The other photo can be found inside this article. Boy, I’m sorry I didn’t get that amount of snow this winter.


23 Replies to “Giant Dwarf Snowman”

  1. Cute, but there are too many depth cues, that make this obvious.

    It looks like it was shot with a wide-angle lens, which makes the house in the background look too far away. Wide-angles emphasize depth, like taking a picture of someone’s face close-up with a wide-angle makes there nose look huge.

    Using a telephoto lens, would have made it even more effective reducing the apparent depth in the photo.

  2. Actually, I didn’t use any special lens. Both of these pictures were taken with a 2.5mp camera on the AUTO setting. The car antenna really gives it away, but at first glance it’s pretty convincing!

  3. Awwwww… It reminds me how I didn’t make even one snowman last year… :(

    Anyways, Love this one. The stars in the backrounf of the second pick look fake… or are they snow….

  4. really? i thought the antenna was kinda a tip off or atleast i was wondering what it was cuz it didn’t look like a stick

  5. yes, Rosina, the things in the second pic ARE snow!
    kl pics, but in the 1st one, at the bottom of it, u can c a black kinda line, outlining the edge of the car. oh well – its still good.

  6. That’s cool. I like taking shots like this. To me it was given away by shadows being cut off. and the big shadow of what would seem to be a head

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