I found a face in this picture

My wife had asked me to take some photos of deseased trees in our local neighborhood so she could look for similarities in the books she had about such things.

At the time, the only program I had which would allow me to see the picture at it's full size was window's paint program. The resolution was so large when I brought the first picture up it spanned almost 3 screens wide and 3 tall.

I was amazed at the detailed view it offered and began scrolling around the photo to see more. At one point I had stopped to look and the patterns the bark made when I found half a face staring back at me from the edge of the screen. When I scrolled back I was surprised to find that had I not already seen it I wouldn't have spotted it.

So, I scrolled back to get the face at the edge of the screen again then cut that screen out and mirrored it.

The image at the top of the screen is the result of that effort. I mirrored it once, then flipped it and mirrored it again which produced two heads connected at the crown.

For months I afterward I searched every picture I'd taken extensively and found a multitude of images which resembled strange faces or creatures. Finally, I gave up on finding new faces and just started working on producing patterns. Some were truly awesome, while many were merely mediocre at best.

Then one day I splashed some water on a knarly root system to wash away the trash and dirt that coated it. When I snapped some pictures of it I found that by enhancing the color of the picture I had captured a lot of reflection of sky. This produced a blue tone to the woodgrain which really made for some fascinating pictures.