Water Poster

There is a strong optical illusion in this image. The letters that spell out WATER on the rusty cover actually stick out but in this image they appear to be pressed in! The clues your brain picks up from the rest of the image make it almost impossible to see the image correctly. One way to see it correctly is to look at it upside down - then it seems easy to see the word WATER poking out. Cool! It is simple but deep. See - the water refererences keep flooding in, washing over me, in a continuous stream... The picture of the rusty cover was taken with an Olympus Stylus Verve digital camera. The rest of the image was created in Adobe Photoshop as part of a personal experiment to learn how to make water like effects.