Pareidolia :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PareidoliaWhile Wikepedia explanation emphasis is on "recognizable human like faces", my understanding is that it is a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists. It does mean to me that our minds try to fill in the "empty" space, not literally in the image space, but mostly the "empty" space created in our mind while viewing such images.
Here are some recent examples from CNP:
http://www.creativenaturephotography.net/forum/phpBB3_0_1/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=16&image_id=14457On the first look, we ignore RaviPrakash's Vine. We see it on the second look. Now the mind is tuned to see it again and again.
http://www.creativenaturephotography.net/forum/phpBB3_0_1/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=16&image_id=14470Dr.Sanjay's image on the first look give ""recognizable human like face", but on the second look we understand it as part of a tree.
http://www.creativenaturephotography.net/forum/phpBB3_0_1/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=1&image_id=14406http://www.creativenaturephotography.net/forum/phpBB3_0_1/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=1&image_id=14456Ghanshyam has shown human like shapes to us with his series of images.
http://www.creativenaturephotography.net/forum/phpBB3_0_1/gallery/image_page.php?image_id=14458Yellappa's image. Harsha wants to see a human shape in the image, Ghanshyam felt the tree is himself. Here, the fact of devastation, not sure if the fire is natural forest fire (which is unlikely) or man made, created emotions in the viewer faster than images with sense of peace or happiness could grow in the mind. What do I see is different than what do you see or what did the artist see.
I can pull out images like these from CNP,
As Harsha said above, "I think the beauty of Art is the very fact that it gives us this opportunity to fill in what ever we want, however we want."
and
"Who wouldn't want to see tigers in Bamboo leaves?"
http://www.creativenaturephotography.net/forum/phpBB3_0_1/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=16&image_id=9666Such images grow in the mind.
-RD