Camels

Is this cool or what? I saw this today for the first time…

What do you see? Lots of camels right? Wrong! What you see are actually the shadows of camels!

Here’s the text that accompanied my version…

This is a picture taken from directly above  these camels in the desert at sunset.  It is considered to be one of  the best pictures of the year.  When you look closely, you can see  that the camels are  the little white lines in the picture.  The black images you see are just the  shadows!

🙂

22 thoughts on “Camels”

  3. Took me a moment to see what you meant but now I’ve got it I have to agree that it’s a stunning picture. This is so typical if the National Geographic, I’ve just gone over to the iPad version of the magazine from hard copy, it’s fantastic on the iPad and is obviously much more interactive, it is the future of publishing but hey, this blog is about a great picture not my views on the iPad, that can be for another time.

  5. Sipu
    Much as I would like to debate we should not really barge into Soutie’s blog, another time maybe.

  6. OMG I couldn’t care less, I rather enjoy it when blogs take a mind of their own and veer off in different directions. Janus’ pic of Prince Charles at the commonwealth games veered off into a history lesson of the Welsh Principality, I enjoyed that!

    😉

  7. Perhaps I’ll re-title this post ‘Would this pic have more impact if I owned an iPad’ 🙂

  10. Stunning pic Soutie. Just to fix a possible misunderstanding; the pic is not taken in Turkey. We don’t have desert here and I don’t think that many camels. Shame I don’t have an ipad though. 😐

  19. tocino :

    Sipu :

    Levent :

    Hello Janus. Thank you. I am a devote fan of your witty posts. :)

    And they say that irony is a British characteristic!

    :-)

    I wonder what Plato would have thought 😉

  20. Soutie :

    tocino :

    Sipu :

    Levent :

    Hello Janus. Thank you. I am a devote fan of your witty posts. :)

    And they say that irony is a British characteristic!

    :-)

    I wonder what Plato would have thought ;)

    Don’t really have anything to add – just wanted to see how many ‘quotes’we could nest 🙂

  21. bravo22c :

    Soutie :

    tocino :

    Sipu :

    Levent :

    Hello Janus. Thank you. I am a devote fan of your witty posts. :)

    And they say that irony is a British characteristic!

    :-)

    I wonder what Plato would have thought ;)

    Don’t really have anything to add – just wanted to see how many ‘quotes’we could nest :-)

    Howzit Bravo, the thought had crossed my mind 🙂

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