ART PHOTOGRAPHY OF PAREIDOLIAS
"When chance, nature and time intertwine..."
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IMAGES
The Fisherman
A magical morning on a lake, a few curls of mist in the foreground sweep away the night...
Our fisherman throws a line to the east accompanied by his dog.
Window tile freshly painted. The swirls are the remnants of the protective adhesive, the fisherman is a backlit brushstroke.
The sunrise zone is a house and the night zone on the left is a fir tree.
The general atmosphere was due to the mist of a shower. Actual size 3mm
48°49'35.00''N 2°12'21.91''E
The End Of The Day
Two seated figures, possibly in Japan, enjoying the last rays.
Moss on a concrete wall
Actual size 10 cm
48°48'46'N 2°11'39E
African Cybernetic Birth
In the bush, a thousand kilometers away of any inhabited region, exists a tribe of humanoids.
Tonight is a party and this robot dad is proud !
So he lifts his son to the African skies.
Cast shadow of a bicycle on a wall
Actual size 50 cm
48°49'34'N 2°12'20E
At The Movie Theater
When the movie is extraordinary,
we are like these two spectators,
back,transported by the silver screen.
Wine stains on food carton
Actual size 40 cm
48°48'47.30''N 2°11'40.28''E
Sunday Promenade By The Sea - 1902
Two strange beings are walking on a Normandy beach.
We can make out the sun behind the clouds and to the right of the cockle fishermen on the shore.
Detail of fingerprints on a cooking pot.
Actual size: 20 cm.
48°49'35.16''N 2°12'21.93''E
The Zen Moment
The stylized Japanese universe…
A person in a robe sitting in complete abandonment of his worries.
Perhaps you will see the rock and the
edge of the river and over time the mountains
in the background.
Shot of a wooden knot on a fir table covered
with red varnish.
Actual size 6cm
45°43'07.26''N 4°42'53.09''E
Predator
Occasionally Predators loom in the icy winter air.
Having only half a face, it's the magic of a reflection that gives them the other half-life.
Completely invisible during the day, in the middle of the street...
Shot of a gutter reflecting in the front of a shop.
The eyes consist of a leaf caught in a spider's web.
Actual size: 30cm.
48°49'23.94''N 2°12429.02''
Shipwreck
A gutted boat bow damaged by indifferent breaking waves.
The howling wind raises walls of water.
The little central character will have a hard time swimming to get back to earth...
In the center, we can also see a large white birdman.
Negative of painting work on a wall.
Actual size: 30cm.
36°45'45.44''N 3°2'51.47''E
The Mongolian Horseman
It's a Kazakh vermilion rider in a hurry
galloping on a hypothetical steed…
Unless it's a seahorse?
Through the snowy steppe to Altai…
Macro shot of a pizza box.
The tomato sauce revealed an equestrian decal.
Actual size: 1 cm.
48°49'23.90''N 2°12'28.87''E
Lunar Pierrot
This incredible theatrical face appeared as a tribute to the mime Marceau, David Bowie or even Pierre Brasseur.
Traces of chocolate on an icing paper.
Actual size 6cm
43°06'17''N 5°55'47''E
Mark
I have a photographer and musician friend whose gaze appeared to me one fine day.
Actual size 40cm
43°07'20.68''N 5°55'44.65''E
The Twilight Mannequin
He walks towards a ray of sunshine to be showered with light.
Sticker relic torn from a pole.
Actual size: 15cm.
48°49'31.97''N 2°12'58.67''E
Difficult Progress
Deep snow forces him...
Our character will waste time in whiteness.
Cast rust on a shutter.
Actual size 20cm
48°48'47.30''N 2°11'40.28''E
Bearded Chewing Gum
Crushed chewing gum is ugly, except when it takes on human traits.
This one evokes a little the Stromboli of Pinocchio or
I don't know which actor (help)...
Actual size 4cm
43°07'20.68''N 5°55'44.65''E
The Sleepwalker
This one walks high in the stars at the top of a mountain on a blade of lightning.
Negative shot of a concrete wall.
Lightning is a crack.
48°49'33.07''N 2°12'21.41''E
Méliès Of The Pan
A childish, naive, brassy head
like a benevolent moon. Magical…
Like Méliès and his journey.
Shot of a copper rivet from a handle ofand saucepan.
Actual size 8mm
48°49'37.40''N 2°12'56.35''E
Joseph
I was doing a very physical job
that day when I saw the face of the famous dictator!
It was impossible for me not to
take this photo very discreetly!
The rain left mud to accumulate under a small pebble.
Actual size: 10 cm
The Shroud
A tea room, a knot of wood on the duckboard begins to take on the appearance of Christ.
Step back! Step back 3m to see the face!
Chance pushed the irony so far as to forget a coin just behind.
Who said religion wasn't a business?
Actual size 6 cm
49°52'29.14''N 0°47'51.96''E
Ataraxia
On an anthracite planet, the barely visible glow of a new day.
A dancer, a mime, an athlete?
We would like to experience this tranquility of the soul
A stain on a training floor in a gym
Actual size: 8 cm.
48°49'02''N 2°11'44''E
The Night Traveler
A bearded man in a trench coat waits under a lamppost, a small suitcase in his hand.
The rest of the story is up to you...
Shot of a door frame in negative.
Actual size 12cm.
48°49'28.18''N 2°12'32.00''E
Sowing Dancer
It has evaporated from dictionaries and one-franc coins.
The rain nourishes the transparencies...
Fragment of paper handkerchief wet from the rain. Actual size: 3 cm
48°49'26.62''N 2°12'52.67''E
The Newt
The aquatic creature left its Aquaboulevard pool to see, not far away, if the water was milder on the side of Avenue Pierre Avia.
Detail of a dilapidated wall. Actual size 40 cm
48°49'50.30''N 2°16'34.71''E
The Angel With The Small Head And The Big Foot
Angels don't always choose where they fall.
He revealed himself on a staircase in the parking lot.
An object will have left some paint on this wall
Actual size: 5 cm
48°48'32''N 2°11'19''E
The Minstrel
A musician from the back walking,
perhaps with a flutiau.
Carelessness.
Peeling paint.
Tactual size: 6 cm
48°48'37''N 2°11'35''E
The Sheriff
It's strange this tangle of black shapes... Nothing is clearly defined and up close, it's abstraction.
Moving away appears a human silhouette and a sheriff's star in a graphic style reminiscent of stencil.
An evocation of John Wayne?
Black paint stain on a wall.
Actual size 6 cm
48°49'28.86''N 2°12'30.77''E
Léo Ferré's Leap Into The Void
“Time is the monstrous ticking
of the watch.
Death is infinity in his eternity.
But what happens to those who go
to meet him? “L Ferré.
Detail of a brick.
Actual size 3mm
48°49'35.01''N 2°12'21.96''E
The Mad Scientist In Mondrian
One of my favorite shots because of its construction in reference to the dutch painter.
The little diamond face of the mad scientist breaks the rigor of the image.
Chipped kitchen tile.
Actual size 1 cm
48°49'35.16''N 2°12'21.93''E
Bored Cyclops
Wear produces strange things.
Chipped paint on a pipe.
Actual size 30 cm
48°54'55''N 2°20'13''E
The Memory
A memory has taken place in the gaze of this woman or this man.
His other eye remains hidden under a thick blonde lock.
Does he know that time flies at 299,792.456 kilometers per second?
Long exposure shot of mold on a wall.
Actual size 45 cm
48°49'22.44''N 2°12'30.90''E
Angry Pacman And Sitting Vizier
Lou Reed said it's the little things that make all the difference : the little vizier sitting cross-legged is just 3mm tall.
The contrast of red and white, symbol of danger and prohibition plays with the other opposition of a quiet character threatened by an angry Pacman.
Detail of a white brick painted red.
Actual size 3mm
48°49'34.76''N 2°12'21.91''E
The Astronaut
"Ground control to Major Tom"
String above a cast iron plate
Actual size 4cm
The Hello From The Shutter
She was very nice this espagnolette lock!
Actual size 50cm
43°06'17''N 5°55'47''E
Little Man With Little Dreams
Stains are evidence of an action, dreams too, big or small.
Paint stains on a stepladder
Actual size 15cm
Walk, You Will See!
The "cagne" settled slowly
in me and going up the stairs
of this beach, this face almost
skull appeared to me, contrasted
by 35 degrees in the shade.
Detail of a stair step.
Actual size 2cm
46°06'14.26''N 5°55'58.17''E
Pegasus Passes Walls
Surprising mineral chaos that gives birth to a very clearly identifiable form.
A white horse.
Millstone.
Actual size 15 cm
48°49'35.01''N 2°12'21.96''E
Walls Have Faces
This face stares at hundreds of high school students daily.
The graphic simplicity of the subject and its evocative potential...
Night shot of a crack under sodium light. Actual size 60 cm
48°49'27.88''N 2°12'41.54''E
Chateaubriand ?
Peeling paint
Actual size 10 cm
45°45'12.75''N 4°48'40.56''E
Slightly Brassens
Did I miss Georges too much?... Anyway, after repeated jogging and passing in front of this wall, I finally spotted this blissful face, like an ecstatic vision of the other side of life...
Shot of a peeling painting on a wall.
Actual size 5 cm
48°49'39.28''N 2°12'04.45''E
The Pointillist Dandy
Perhaps Dorian Gray, because of the condescending eye and haughty carriage of the head, then, on closer inspection, the scoundrelly air recalls Kurt Cobain...
But the dotted line reveals an "A" on the collar.
So, who is it ?
Shot of a white-painted mat whose paint has peeled off with repeated strokes.
Actual size 10 cm
45°45'12.75''N 4°48'40.56''E
At The Sight Of The Japanese, China Rises
An old adage illustrated by this flying Chinese, training in kungfu above a cloud of bubbles...
The stylized purity of the Chinese world, refinement and elegance in natural chance.
Ceramic tiles on the doorstep of a business. Several successive shocks ended up drawing this shape. Actual size 15 cm
48°49'25.97''N 2°12'32.43'''E
The Sculptural
From a distance it was incredible how this woman imposed herself!
So much so that I thought
I saw a bas-relief there.
Shocks on a wall cornerstone
Actual size 45 cm
48°51'06''N 2°22'38'''E
Man In Spider Armor
The face barely drawn on the wall takes on the expression of a condemned man before his sentence.
The metal grid that makes up his armored body also sends our consciousness back to the prison world.
Iron curtain having left a mark on a wall.
Actual size 12cm
3 Headed Totem
The totem represented the crests of a family.
3 faces: Below a dumbfounded man looks to the right, then a mustachioed aristocrat to the left, and we can see, at the very top,
a third little face with a funny puff.
In this case it is a Lyon family from the Croix Rousse district.
White paint on a sidewalk.
Actual size 8cm
The Little Prince With The Wine Stain
A watercolor face, tip of a brush.
Wine stain on a bar table.
Actual size: 3 cm.
48°49'27.13''N 2°12'37.42''E
Bread witch
It's quite incongruous to see
such a face at the table.
Pareidolias appear where
they want.
48°48'47.30''N 2°11'40.28''E
Caught In The Lava
One night, on the wall of a street,
the light from the street lamp gave life
to this flint stone.
Surprising expression that could
cast doubt on the game of chance so much
it feels like pain endured by this character.
His eye questions us.
Flint stone and cement joint.
Actual size 5 cm
48°49'28.70''N 2°11'45.18''E
Wooden Face
Sometimes walking quickly in the city in the middle of the night we see the face of a sergeant at the bottom of a tree trunk. Sometimes…
Shot of a work trunk.
Actual size: 10 cm
48°49'28.49''N 2°12'57.98''E
Jackie kennedy
A face from a 70's shampoo "advertisement".
It is also a tribute to Mondrian regarding the framing.
Chewing gum on the tiling of the Gare de Lyon during rush hour! Actual size 5 cm
48°50'41.46''N 2°22'23.85''E
Worries
A desert wandering, when the
burden of problems takes all of existence.
We bend our backs, we arch our backs
The hands in the pockets,
as if it only happened to us.
We search. Only.
Some also see it as a skater.
The blue version is a negative print
Shot of bird droppings on a wall
in stone. .
Actual size 10cm
AbNormal Jean
Textiles are conducive to
receive faces.
This one is ghostly.
Pants
Actual size 9 cm
48°48'47.30''N 2°11'40.28''E
Hilarious Chair
We laugh at the theatre.
It's rarer than the theater itself laughs.
Maybe a little "stone" this lodge?
48°52'14''N 2°20'55''E
Lightbird
It is a migratory bird that left the cartouches of the Egyptian walls.
The god Ra gave it life in France.
Play of solar light in a balustrade
Actual size 40 cm
48°50'21''N 2°13'01''E
Barbarian Climbing The Eiffel Tower
Storming Paris, an iconoclast attempts to topple or scale the Iron Lady
Trace of liquid on the ground
Actual size 40cm
48°53'36''N 2°20'32''E
The Ray-Ban Spy
In the decrepitude of a wall, the appearance of a character with a worried face.
Cracks on a wall. Actual size 70 cm
48°49'29.38''N 2°12'30.07''E
Tanagra Of The Blue Cobblestones
Female appearance recalling these famous statuettes from an eponymous Greek city.
Guess the naughty wind…
Negative photo of the famous little white cobblestones in Lisbon.
Actual size: 10 cm
38°42'38.91''N 9°08'43.40''W
Beyond Cobblestones
The horse symbolizes freedom, the cobblestones in 1968 too.
Scooter oil
Actual size 40cm
48°49'05''N 2°12'00''E
The Peasant
She settled there nicely, on a beech parquet floor, taking advantage of the work.
So pretty that it was very difficult for me to hunt her!
Paint stain on a beech board.
Actual size 4cm
48°48'47.30''N 2°11'40.28''E
Japanese Landscape
The image of Japan in the collective unconscious. The poetic evocation is very cliché; a mountain in the background,
mists from which emerges an ideal autumnal vegetation.
It was during a gray and rainy day that this image appeared, the water having enhanced the contrasts and colors.
Detail of a cobblestone.
Actual size: 12cm.
48°49'28.51''N 2°12'46.34''E
Verdun
"In Verdun there is no night. There are only days which,
in their horror, follow each other and resemble each other."
I saw in this stone a decoration end of the world with black trees,
only remnant of a world still alive, tense on the trenches and the impacts of shells...
Detail of a stone on a wall.
Actual size: 10cm.
43°43'2.04''N 4°19'25.97''E
The Hilltop Hamlet
This place must exist on earth,
somewhere.
Moisture on a wall.
Actual size: 40cm.
43°48'54''N 2°11'39''E
Jeronimo Letellec
A green-haired Apache.
Rock
Actual size: 4m
48°37'08''N 2°11'41''E
The Orange Rider 2022
But what does our rider ride ?
A camel ? A dinosaur ?
The Loch Ness monster ?
Spray paint.
Actual size 15 cm
48°48'28.82''N 2°11'17.01''E
The Wave 2023
A green wave of vegetation or luminescent plankton in negative
Moss under a bridge
Actual size 5 m
48°47'53''N 2°13'00''E
The Soul Of The Condemned 2023
You can't lock up a ghost;
Chipped tiles
Actual size 10 cm
43°06'44''N 5°56'07''E
Galaxy Man 2023
But A galaxy man profile.
His eye is a star.
Negative coffee grounds
Actual size 4 cm
48°48'47.30''N 2°11'40.28''E
Gueule Cassée
Perhaps the spirit of Francis Bacon was floating around that
day !
Pittosporum trunk
Actual size 70cm
43°06'22''N 5°56'05''E
The Peacock Rider
The rider, mounted on a peacock with a tail cut off, observes a sun on the horizon
Mold on tiles
Actual size 1cm
48°48'47.30''N 2°11'40.28''E
The Bell 2023
As if an artist had drawn it
there...
Paint drip
Actual size 10cm
48°54'06''N 2°18'41''E
Dancer À La Matisse 2023
As if another artist had drawn it there...
Peeling paint.
Actual size 9cm
48°48'50''N 2°11'41''E
It's Cold 2024
A group of 4 in front of an icy expanse
Moisture on a wall
Actual size 70 cm
47°55'18''N 1°51'11''E