About the Image(s)

On my drive to the airport after a family wedding in Oregon, I stopped in a National Forest to eat a packed lunch. I noticed that the place I stopped was burned a few years ago leaving scarred trees, bleached limbs, and new undergrowth coming up. A particular piece of a downed tree caught my eye with what I perceived to be its own eye. I isolated the form in post processing with burning in around it and converted to monochrome since the tree was bleached out. This is what happens when pareidolia takes over your mind. The result is a chunk of partially burned wood. Any other visualization is the viewer's prerogative. On a partly overcast afternoon the Nikon Z7 with Nikkor 14-30mm f/4S lens at 23mm exposure was ISO 400, 1/90 second at f/5.6.