Riddle?

[vaneramos]

I love puzzling photographs, but I didn't realize the first image in my previous post would be difficult to figure out, but I know the context. If you can explain what's happening there, please do. Otherwise, I might have to clarify it myself, and post the original image from which that one was (slightly) cropped. Or I could just leave leafshimmer wondering.

Meanwhile, since this morning's walk, snow has hit, and it's looking heavy. In less than an hour the bare ground has been covered.

Comments

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

Looks like the frozen surface of a lake, with trees translucently reflected, and a patch of open water in the middle....

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Sure enough. Actually it was no more than a flexible frozen skin on the edge of the river, with an overhanging branch reflected. Here's the original image from which the other was cropped.

[leafshimmer.livejournal.com]

After reading Dakoopst's post, I went back, and finally got what I was looking at.

It really did look like human skin. But it was the skin of the river.

xo Shimmer

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting analogy. There's one spot in the Eramosa downstream from this spot where the water tends to run shallow and ripples over some stones. Once I was startled by my own vivid imagination of a writhing snake with iridescent scales. I like snakes, so this was a pleasant vision for me.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Hm. When you first posted it, I was puzzled. It did seem to be a water surface. Your post was about birds, specifically geese, and the pattern in the middle seemed to be vaguely bird-shaped, but it sure didn't look like a goose.

Then when you posted this, I looked at it again (before reading any of the comments) and realized what it was (although I too didn't realize it was the river). I think I was having a depth-perception problem the first time.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

The difficulty in finding a point of reference with respect to depth is what makes this image ambiguous. I didn't see it at first because I knew the context.