Commended (2022)

Boy on a Buoy (complete the pattern: cows-boot-?)

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The first picture in the pattern looks like a tiny cow on top of a big cow, the second looks like a tiny man inside a boot but these are illusions. To make them you must put something as close to the camera as possible and then the other object is far away, positioned at the right angle to make it look like it is on top of, or inside, the near object. This works because pictures are 2D and we see in 3D, so we would not make the mistake in real life. The angles you take the picture at are key to making it work. My picture continues the pattern because there is a faraway object on a near one that gives the illusion of a teeny tiny boy standing on a fishing buoy (I thought this was punny!).

— James Norwood (P7)