Cool Trees – photoshopped or Not

I’m sure that many of these images are born in the bowls of photoshop and not in nature – but they are cool and well worth watching.

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A few cool optical illusions

Thanks Julie for forwaring these to me.

Greetings from Mr. Escher

 

See them move when you move

 

Yes, these are straight lines!

 

Click for full size and see them move

 

And now the best of them all,
stare at the four little dots for half a minute or so,
then look at a blank wall –
and have a religious experience…

Got Complaints…

Think again!

Oh, yeah, and there are those who get very upset that they can’t have a new car right now – like this…

Misleading Depth of Field

Wikipedia has a long and in-depth article on Depth of Field but with all the formulas you can get lost very easily.

So here we show you some images that were sent to me (so unfortunately I don’t have any sources to quote) show casing what depth of field is not. I know, the logic is a bit twisted but what can you do if you have to write an intro to some pictures you want to show that don’t really need an introduction?

Fear of Heights? – – Nah!

Just looking at this make me dizzy, and imagining that would be me created much worse body reachtions. This, by the way, in Hong Kong – it sure is a nice view!