Location Taken: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Time Taken: October 2012
The animals in this photo are a lot easier to see than the ones in yesterday’s photo. But it’s still not obvious.
It’s not because of distance this time. It’s because of camouflaging. The elk in this photo are nearly the same color as the dry grass of the hill they’re grazing on.
Nearly being the key word. Once you spot them, they’re easy to find again, after all. But it takes that crucial parsing of the pixels, separating out which ones belong to grass and which ones to an elk butt.
It’s sort of like figuring out an anagram, like OCASH. Once you realize it’s “CHAOS”, it’s easy, but until then, you just see “Oh, Cash!”
