Pareidolia in Google Earth and on Toasts

"Pareidolia in Google Earth... on Toasts" ... and Stones...? Here you are:

Or it is just me who see a reptile head-like carving on the stone in the center of phone-screnshot below?
Do you see the pretty evil cobra-head? (Probably its better if rotated.)


link to GMaps-BlueDot

Funny, I have spotted this stone at first, then browsed through all image for another example of carvings with no success.
It seems, there is no even one more piece of stone with only a slash of anything, that would look alike some artistic workmanship...(!)
That is why I think it is only pareidolia, otherwise I would bravely say; it is a carved reptile motif, I have found amongst scattered stones of this one-time beautiful building complex.

If anyone can spot another carved (looking) stone, then it is probably no pareidolia.

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Feb 13, 2020 12:46:18 GMT syzygy said:

That is why I think it is only pareidolia, otherwise I would bravely say; it is a carved reptile motif, I have found amongst scattered stones of this one-time beautiful building complex.

If anyone can spot another carved (looking) stone, then it is probably no pareidolia.

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Since  its the ruins of buildings, or at least a collection of material for building, the existence of some other carved feature on a rock is not much,
it would have to be a preponderance of the similar style  of carving.


But also how about look at   ability and  motive (no pun intended).

Ability ... so what might be a drawing is lines in a light coloured rock, showing a darker rock below. the lines of are of uniform depth.
How could a person that sees the light covered surface  know that by cutting a line into the light right, they would reveal the dark rock below ?
Natural occurance.. the interface of the darker rock and lighter rock had the line in it , and that interface is what lets the light rock fall away, so as to ensure the line is of uniform depth.


Motive.. its a pile of rocks used to build walls.  Why would someone carve into the roughest surface of a random boulder , to make art, when all around there are rocks with much flatter surfaces,  and the  rectangular prism rocks can be placed onto a plinth , table, or  part of the building, for display. It makes no sense that an ugly piece of rock would be worked on, without some effort to clean it up for beauty and practicality. There's no shortage of two tone rocks, you'd be able to find some that had the colour that you could carve into , with uniform depth of carving, to reveal another color.. the two tone artwork.

The rock has other features, which are random blobs that your brain says "if I look at it from a different angle, I might see it as something I recognise".


Its a naturally occuring   design that happens to look like what you could intentionally create if you were making a reptile/serpent/dragon head. 

Did you notice that    3 rocks to the right, the rock has a flat surface with a fish head like effect in it,
and part of the flat surface has the lip like it might be part of a footstep or framed area.

Its possible the surface was smoothed off by man, or maybe natural, as the quarrying methods aimed to produce   rectangular prisms ,  but I think the fishhead is just  a random feature .. (perhaps due to collision with another rock.. the collision is  a random process even if a human threw the rock.)

another "Jesus portrait", at least a face-like illusion for those who are recipient:


(contrast slightly modified)

portrait in field Gauderndorf.kmz (848 B)

finally have found this old, small, framed screenshot of some natural aerial land-art found by me 10+ years ago, pity location remains unknown since oGEC disappeared...




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(it is a duplicate crosspost from Hill's Beautiful Earth thread.)

...and suddenly I have felt, something was watching me amongst the reed- a Pitbull or Staffordshire Terrier was hiding in the swamps:


Proper satellite imagery only on desktop GE @ >>-26.4255946, 26.1861402<<

pitbull pareidolia swamp South-Africa.kmz (848 B)

I see contours of a (young, short haired) woman here in the desert sand, somewhere in the Malian Sahara: (map crosshairs points to the right elbow)



No good resolution imagery on GE at >>20.669872, 0.600509<<, so check location on ZoomEarth!

Opening map-link above, you'll find crosshairs pointing to the "neck of the woman". The "body" tilts to the right (compass set to North - cannot be adjusted in ZE).

Besides the lips, the nose, the eyes are obvious, I think I can even see her bent right arm and half-bent left arm with the fingers on this latter...

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Does anyone else see what I see? - Hope, at least some not disappointed...! (;

Pareidolia wolf-head from Mauritania:


>>25.1946261,-5.5537754<<

wolfie.kmz (763 B)

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EDIT:

with these pale outlines it definitely looks like a waving bear:




Better resolution imagery on Zoom Earth.

Jul 6, 2020 7:21:15 GMT syzygy said:

Pareidolia wolf-head from Mauritania

And a fox-head from Spain.

Attachments:

Fox.kmz (682 B)

A fetus in green. (Córdoba, Spain)

Attachments:

Fetus.kmz (792 B)

A portrait

Attachments:

Face.kmz (702 B)

Nov 8, 2020 9:54:27 GMT willi1 said:

A portrait...]

great example! - a cool Dracula face right there! ( :

"Pareidolia: Seeing Shapes in the Cosmos | NASA" www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pareidolia-seeing-shapes-in-the-cosmos

I see some perfect human profile here on ZoomEarth at >>48.820188, 115.588446<< - Even "skull suture"-waterflow helps imagination... ( :



However not best visibility at the moment on GE imagery, kmz file for reference attached:
perfect profile on ZE - East Mongolia.kmz (816 B)

Exotic fish

Attachments:

Fish.kmz (683 B)

Profile of an old, worn cyborg - Morocco



web-GE link

Twittering bird

Attachments:

Twittering Bird.kmz (808 B)

Aug 22, 2021 9:23:23 GMT willi1 said:

Twittering bird

... From a Hieronymus Bosch painting? ( :

Frightening multi-faces enigma


Angry demons of the killed jungle

Or can this be naturally such a barren place? 

GE(web) link (if it works by anyone on any device)

Please dont take this Pareidolia fun tour into a too serious analysis.
Keep the focus, be skeptical and factual and look at it as funny, we imagine, from time to time, data changing.
Check it out at any time, and keep changing your point of view, whatever U zoom into in this great GE application.

Your posts/replys are great, nice to view and enjoyable - keep them coming :-)

Best Tom

A disfigured face, Shelonsky Islands, Laptev Sea, Sakha Republic, Russia.


Coordinates: 71.768142,138.693621

GM

Attachments:

Disfigured face.kmz (705 B)

The highest mountain of central Italy is called Gran Sasso, which is also known as The Face of the Giant because it looks like the face of a person laying down:



Credits: Ugo di Giammarco www.instagram.com/digiammarcougofoto/?hl=it

Brilliant photo ndrqu!

The clouds, the pine forest, the lights... - really great shot!

I see no link, no photo credit - was it made by you?

Sept 9, 2021 14:58:31 GMT syzygy said:

Brilliant photo ndrqu !

The clouds, the pine forest, the lights... - really great shot!

I see no link, no photo credit - was it made by you?

No, unfortunately it's not my photo  the author is Ugo di Giammarco: www.instagram.com/digiammarcougofoto/?hl=it

A lamb with a corona mask

Attachments:

Lamb.kmz (797 B)

Very cool shadows portrait (beardy man with a red right eye) spotted by laxluthier : 

 

GM SV link


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Have been posted as a "relevant" reply to this thread.

Mar 17, 2017 7:07:12 GMT syzygy said:

... a find from Libya by Thomas S. and it is astounding! Sad, even not a coordinate given to screenie...:




well, a try to find anyone? -I have already given up.

At last I have bumped into the oGEC layer mark on GE! ( :

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Face in the Desert
By: Thomas S.

Date: 2011-05-17

This is an extraordinarily spuky face of a haunted man in the middle of Libya.

From: A face in the desert - 6 Message(s)
Google Earth Community

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Imagery date: 6/2004
(It can be seen by various (all) imagery dates, also great "face-view" on ZoomEarth)

Coordinates: >>29.25186,16.43036<<

Have spotted this cloud face with sunglasses enigma, browsing Zoom Earth HD imagery in an early afternoon hour, 21. january 2022.


Coordinates: >>42.3719, 40.1445<<

I have saved screenie and link as usual every time I spot some worthy, but checking location in the next day's morning I was rather surprised to see the face gone...

If you check the (saved) ZE map link you will see a slightly different imagery for the same date displayed. The bunch of clouds still recognizeable only seem to be a bit away in time.

I have asked ZoomEarth about this oddity and they have answered as:

"Imagery from the HD Satellite layer is updated in a polar orbit, which overlaps at the poles. So sometimes the imagery is replaced during another later orbit. Hope that makes sense!"

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Well, that was the way how this poor, low-res ZE frame became a rare and unique example of pareidolia on satellite imagery, regardless it's not even a very good one.

Hope you like it though...! 

Meanwhile I collected few other pareidolia sites which I have already posted on Instagram --> @syzygy426

Here is a special favorite of mine from my recent Iran Series:

"The Old Hippie"

Location: Urmia Lake, Iran

Coordinates: >>37.47612, 45.55392<<

Dimensions: 5,3 X 3,9 kilometers

Imagery date: 2/2014

Edited Google Earth Image / 2022 CNES/Airbus

The head of a turtle

31.365844° -91.707554°