Faces of Mud

From the Series of Series: The Faces Of....

Landscape Portraits by Billy Howard.

https://tinyurl.com/FacesOfMud

Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. — Wikipedia

Perhaps from growing up in San Francisco in the '60s '70s, and from the many hours of landscape photography over the decades in dozens of remote locales, I see faces in Nature. Sometimes human, sometimes fanciful, some look like animals and some conjure frightening images of mayhem or visions of an ethereal world.

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Bear Paws (and snake)
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Joy