Author Topic: did you see that? (Read 2155 times)

vaskidmark · « **on:** August 13, 2013, 09:47:19 AM »

How long did it take you? How much longer to figure out what it was?

stay safe.

AmbulanceDriver · « **Reply #1 on:** August 13, 2013, 10:26:42 AM »

Less than 15 seconds to spot, maybe another 10 seconds to positively identify.

Not that it would have saved me.

RevDisk · « **Reply #2 on:** August 13, 2013, 10:34:26 AM »

Brave lad. More exposed than I'd prefer

AZRedhawk44 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 13, 2013, 10:38:27 AM »

I got distracted by what looks like a skull in the center of the pic, but I see it as well. About 45 seconds.

makattak · « **Reply #4 on:** August 13, 2013, 11:16:55 AM »

Quote from: AmbulanceDriver on August 13, 2013, 10:26:42 AM

Less than 15 seconds to spot, maybe another 10 seconds to positively identify.

Not that it would have saved me.

It was about 10-15 seconds for me, too. Identified faster as I noticed the hat. However, I consider it cheating as I knew I was looking for something, and it was probably camouflaged.

(Related, I've read that colorblind people, like myself, tend to pick out camouflaged items faster than those who are not.)

MechAg94 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 13, 2013, 11:23:12 AM »

I guess I misjudged the scale. I was looking for a little spider or something and saw it as a pic of a small creek or pile of rocks. I saw that big rock in the center as being 5 or 6 inches across. Chuncks of concrete and flint rock in a stream bed.

Your reference to a hat made me look at it again as a large area and I saw what looks like a barrel. Pictures without scale are tough sometimes for me. Maybe it is where I am and grew up. We don't have many big rock outcrops like that.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #6 on:** August 13, 2013, 11:42:13 AM »

An honest 3-5 seconds. I was focusing on the lower left quadrant when I noticed the barrel and slightly different coloration out of the "corner of my eye".

Chris

charby · « **Reply #7 on:** August 13, 2013, 11:46:14 AM »

Quote from: mtnbkr on August 13, 2013, 11:42:13 AM

An honest 3-5 seconds. I was focusing on the lower left quadrant when I noticed the barrel and slightly different coloration out of the "corner of my eye".

Chris

About a 1 sec of looking at it I thought it was a spider where the camodude was. Then I though it was a chickie covered in body paint laying on the rock, then I finally saw it.

K Frame · « **Reply #8 on:** August 13, 2013, 01:14:43 PM »

Slightly longer than Chris. I noticed the rifle barrel first, also because of the color differential.

French G. · « **Reply #9 on:** August 13, 2013, 01:39:29 PM »

I saw a sailboat!

freakazoid · « **Reply #10 on:** August 13, 2013, 03:48:44 PM »

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I guess I misjudged the scale. I was looking for a little spider or something and saw it as a pic of a small creek or pile of rocks. I saw that big rock in the center as being 5 or 6 inches across. Chuncks of concrete and flint rock in a stream bed.

Your reference to a hat made me look at it again as a large area and I saw what looks like a barrel. Pictures without scale are tough sometimes for me. Maybe it is where I am and grew up. We don't have many big rock outcrops like that.

This. The whole time I was thinking maybe it was a spider or something.

Quote from: French G. on August 13, 2013, 01:39:29 PM

I saw a sailboat!

Tallpine · « **Reply #11 on:** August 13, 2013, 03:55:41 PM »

Yeah, I was way off on the scale

First I saw what looked like a rattlesnake head poking out of the hole in the center.

Then I saw a lizard on the right side of the big rock.

Is this anything like snipe hunting?

vaskidmark · « **Reply #12 on:** August 13, 2013, 04:30:07 PM »

Lizard?

Is that what they are caling themselves now?

stay sasfe.

Jocassee · « **Reply #13 on:** August 13, 2013, 04:53:30 PM »

Perpective threw me off as well, I was looking for a rattlesnake. I saw the barrel first

Regolith · « **Reply #14 on:** August 13, 2013, 05:50:56 PM »

For some reason I thought it was an underwater scene, so I was looking for a fish or an octopus or something. Soon as I saw the reference to a hat I found him pretty quickly.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #15 on:** August 13, 2013, 06:33:30 PM »

I first saw this on my phone, and couldn't see a blessed thing, even after I saw from the comments that it was a sniper. I got home and looked at it on the 17" screen, and immediately saw a barrel, then the rest of him.

Neemi · « **Reply #16 on:** August 13, 2013, 06:50:33 PM »

It took me a while to see anything - mostly I was so worried it was one of those blasted 3-D 'you have to stare cross-eyed at the screen/page for 30 seconds after drinking a unicorn tear milkshake' pictures that I got mad and just waited for a few comments to at least give me a hint as to what it was.

Then I found it after about 30 seconds. And I didn't have any residual cross-eyed double vision.

41magsnub · « **Reply #17 on:** August 13, 2013, 07:16:22 PM »

I looked at it this morning for about 10 seconds before work and didn't see anything. I too was looking for a spider or snake.

I got home just now and saw the sniper instantly.

French G. · « **Reply #18 on:** August 14, 2013, 11:16:45 AM »

Quote from: Jocassee on August 13, 2013, 04:53:30 PM

Perpective threw me off as well, I was looking for a rattlesnake. I saw the barrel first

Two biggest things to camouflage. Straight lines and movement.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #19 on:** August 14, 2013, 11:54:37 AM »

Quote from: Tallpine on August 13, 2013, 03:55:41 PM

Yeah, I was way off on the scale

First I saw what looked like a rattlesnake head poking out of the hole in the center.

Then I saw a lizard on the right side of the big rock.

I "saw" a rattlesnake, too.

Scout26 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 14, 2013, 12:27:52 PM »

took about 3-5 seconds, but then I was scanning for "a threat".

RocketMan · « **Reply #21 on:** August 14, 2013, 05:08:42 PM »

I'd be a dead guy, still can't see a thing. Color blind, too, for whatever that's worth. Not much, apparently.
I see a hat shaped object toward the upper right in a resting snake-looking formation. Nothing like a rifle barrel anywhere, unless I pretend there is one in that snakey-looking thing.

SADShooter · « **Reply #22 on:** August 14, 2013, 05:15:19 PM »

Quote from: RocketMan on August 14, 2013, 05:08:42 PM

I'd be a dead guy, still can't see a thing. Color blind, too, for whatever that's worth. Not much, apparently.
I see a hat shaped object toward the upper right in a resting snake-looking formation. Nothing like a rifle barrel anywhere, unless I pretend there is one in that snakey-looking thing.

[Sheepishly raises hand.] Me, too. No clue after several visits to the image.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 14, 2013, 05:38:21 PM »

Fairly quick because of the different color of the shooter.

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