Blog Post 5

Many images show a grand landscape scene that spans across a desert or an ocean or the mountains. Some show details of nature, such as the intricate veins of a flower in the dewy morning. I chose a rather different sort of image. At first glance all a person would see is two pandas sitting on a rock chewing on a bamboo plant. A closer look at the details reveals that this picture is actually filled with illusions...and more pandas.

The artist thought through each intricate detail to include as many hidden pandas as possible. He also created it so that the hierarchy in the image would reveal the two main pandas as the central focus and most important part. A lot of emphasis is placed on them initially to hide the appearance of the other pandas. This was done with contrasting colors against a mostly monochromatic background.

There are also significant patterns. This is what distinguishes, yet hides the hidden panda faces. The repetition of bamboo reads seems unimportant, but reveals two hidden pandas on either side when taking a closer look. The rocks and leaves also have similar patterns, but use dark and light shading to create the face of the pandas. Even the fur of one of the main pandas is shaded to form another's face; however at first glance it looks like the folds a normal animal's fur would make if it were in that position.

I think this picture is a very good example to look at and analyze because it encompasses many of the design elements talked about in our reading, but also challenges the mind to look for all the details that a first glance would miss. These details that have to be searched for in pictures with hidden images help the writer to be more descriptive in their writing and mold the image in the reader's thoughts more completely.