By Scott Shephard
White Sands National Monument - New Mexico
South Dakotans no doubt recognize these plants to be variations of the kind of yucca that grow in the drier parts of our state. But when Deb saw this photo, taken at the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, she laughed and said, “Hula girls.” That’s not at all what I was photographing. I was seeing lines, shapes, textures and shadows. But now I can’t help but seen grass skirts.
And I am reminded again that what I see in a picture is rarely what someone else sees. I guess a photo is a kind of a Rorschach test onto which we impose our own sensibilities, experiences and imagination. What do you see?
Hermann Rorschach (died 1922) - https://web.archive.org/web/20070820233339/http://ar.geocities.com/test_de_rorschach/