Pixelated Wall
This is on the other side of the small now creek-less valley out back of John’s Place opposite yesterday’s shot. The range of tones in these breeze blocks, or are they cinder blocks?, was what I found interesting.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1, m.Zuiko Digital 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens, ISO200, f2.8, 40mm (80mm equivalent), 1/3200th
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burnt embers 
I agree with Photobooth Journal – the title is excellent and completely changes the interpretation of the image.
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Thanks Melinda – I hope you found something to interpret in this image… maybe a pixelated landscape lurking just out of recognition. Or just an appreciation for this kind of building block, painted. I think these ones are probably made of clay, in earth-tones. I would have liked to see them unpainted. But the whole wall is painted grey…
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There were probably better color choices than grey, but they wouldn’t have inspired that great title, I bet!
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Love the title. Makes you look at the image in quite a differnt way than if the title had just been “Brick Wall”.
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Thanks Katherine! It struck me when processing the image that it looked like one of those deliberately pixelated bits of an image, used to obscure detail, like a face. Which automatically makes my brain try to discern the hidden detail…
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And yes, there is hidden detail. If one squints a bit there is a face to be seen in this wall (I always see faces in the clouds, too – guess that is just my thing, eh?) It could be a clown or a mustachioed gent. Can you see it, Mr E? His eyes are above the horizontal line.
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Hi Katherine, I have been squinting at it. I don’t see a face, but then I don’t see them in clouds either. I see a load of bricks in different shades of grey, and possibly a hidden pastoral landscape with a few deciduous trees, in leaf. If I squint hard enough.
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Funny how differently our brains work. I guess there is some correlation between the types of photos we prefer and what we can see in the bricks. You landscapes and me portraits. Interesting!
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Maybe our brains settle on anticipated patterns, whether in focus or not, and mark these as our preferences. I do like landscapes and take a lot of them, but I like a lot of other things, including portraits.
Still, I think you and portraits may have been conceived at the same moment and born as twins. Thus I am hardly surprised you see a face in these pixels!
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