photo sets of the unexpected?
November 18, 2005 9:56 AM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

"What is this actually a photo of" photo sets that reveal the unexpected?

when i was a kid, i remember a series of photo sets that had pictures of what looked like the moon landscaps, but zoomed out to reveal an elephant. stuff like that.

I am looking for more sets like that. Any ideas?
posted by ransom to media & arts (6 comments total)
Owl magazine, I think, had some of these.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:02 AM on November 18, 2005


"Games" magazine had these kind of photos too.
posted by Relly70 at 10:14 AM on November 18, 2005


This isn't the exact same set-up, but another neat approach: The first picture of three shows a close-up of a unique and identifiable part of something, the second pictures shows a bit more, and the third shows the answer. Games has them a lot, as did Highlights.
posted by whatzit at 10:23 AM on November 18, 2005


I remember these as the "What in the World?" back-page feature of National Geographic World magazine. They've got a bunch of them on the National Geographic site.
posted by jjg at 11:42 AM on November 18, 2005


Slightly different in, ah, topic, but there's Galumpia, which is at first glance really NSFW but then, upon closer examination....

...well, you should just check it out.
posted by veronica sawyer at 12:38 PM on November 18, 2005


I'm partial to the What in the World? segment on Late Night, but sadly they aren't archived on Conan's site (though many other humorous things are).
posted by kyleg at 1:27 PM on November 18, 2005


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