Thursday, January 19, 2006

White hot

Answer revealed, puzzle unsolved, click comments and scroll down for answer. Scroll down this post for original image.

Update: I increased the image size. Combined with the clue, the puzzle should be rather easy now.

Identify the pale green object on top right corner.












Original image:

46 Comments:

Blogger v_madhu said...

Let me be the first to make the super-obvious guess (which most probably means it is incorrect).

That is a photo of a jet-stream and the pale green object is in fact a wisp of a cloud. The photo was taken close to dusk/dawn.

Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:51:00 PM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

welcome back, muddian ! missed ur participation in the last few rounds.

guess incorrect though. maybe some sleep will help guess more accurately :)

Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:55:00 PM  
Blogger littlecow said...

Saturn with the milky way in the background.

Friday, January 20, 2006 12:11:00 AM  
Blogger littlecow said...

its an island and what you see is a wake of a ship? (it almost looks like there are waves in the middle of the picture...)

Friday, January 20, 2006 12:24:00 AM  
Blogger The ramblings of a shoe fiend said...

Picture of an island taken from an aeroplane window.

Friday, January 20, 2006 4:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

if u squint ur eyes and turn ur head at a 30 degree angle and if u r a bad guesser...u can see the pic of a tablet of detergent dissolving in water and the green object is the bead/ball kinda thingie that the tablet comes with!

Friday, January 20, 2006 7:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Surf excel ad with a 'daag'
'DAAG ACCHE HAIN' campaign's teaser-a?

Friday, January 20, 2006 7:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

is it a bubble?

Friday, January 20, 2006 7:53:00 AM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

>Balaks: very interesting, I didn't even see Saturn till ur guess. but noope, incorrect.

>Shoe Fiend: Incorrect, but curious to know ho u would explain the white line in ur guess.

>Meghna: Wow that's interesting, quite creative, but incorrect.

>Bubs: Eavvvy ad agency behavior kaattitta po ! Keep guessin .. don't throw in anymore Ramarajan costumes guesses though.

Friday, January 20, 2006 8:42:00 AM  
Blogger The ramblings of a shoe fiend said...

i thot it was a sandbar...

ok guess 2.... a goblin's finger?

Friday, January 20, 2006 9:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I know this has a very little porbability of being right, but will try for fun: Is it the Columbia or some space shuttle landing and that pale green thing is the piece that broke off while landing?!

Friday, January 20, 2006 9:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looks like a bird to me (or a fish?).

Friday, January 20, 2006 10:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looks like a bird to me (or a fish?).

Friday, January 20, 2006 10:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

a tortoise.

Friday, January 20, 2006 10:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oki guess 2..a stain on some kind of fabric or carpet?

Friday, January 20, 2006 1:06:00 PM  
Blogger Aparna Menon said...

1. Ultra close up of a crazy printed Garden Saree

2. Some random modern art. The green color is because Sprite spilled on the top corner and smudged the paint

I will come back for the third guess...:)

Friday, January 20, 2006 1:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is it somone's face, with colors inverted. The one on the top right right is the lips!
The reason is I noticed that hums skin's color turns blue when the colors are inverted.

Friday, January 20, 2006 2:40:00 PM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

Good guesses everyone. Let me give you a little clue: Vand has the right idea.

Friday, January 20, 2006 3:27:00 PM  
Blogger catcharun said...

with due credit to vand. close up of a face with a wisp of hair. i think it's an eye though and not the lips.

Friday, January 20, 2006 5:25:00 PM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

Catcharun, I think you got the extreme right idea. Your thought process need a little communist shift. ok, now I'm confusing myself.

Friday, January 20, 2006 6:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lenin eye on the communist flag?

Friday, January 20, 2006 6:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The white streak in the picture has to be the eyebrow.
I cant think of a black streak (original color) like that anywhere else on the human body :)
So the thing close to the eyebrow include ear, nose, and the eye.
Dude, what do you mean by 'communist' shift? Do you mena shift to the left, which means left of the eyebrow. So is it the ear??

Friday, January 20, 2006 10:07:00 PM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

I might have confused u guys too much.

The clue is: it is color inverted.

Friday, January 20, 2006 10:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My 3rd guess for today(Friday): A tiger with stripes?

Friday, January 20, 2006 10:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with Vand, more specifically,I think it has to be the eye of a tiger.

Friday, January 20, 2006 10:50:00 PM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

Come on Sai, be more original !

Sorry, so far all guesses are incorrect and no where near the answer.

Friday, January 20, 2006 11:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, by the way, a nice way to describe the wind chime, is:
it is a sound producing tube which is round......but square!!
(according to ganakaladhara, gandharvagana lola, kaliyuga gana tilaka kochappa...brother seshappa)

Friday, January 20, 2006 11:12:00 PM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

sai, u missed 'nadabrihma' kochappa .. ;)

Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My god, unbeatable!
Second guess: Could it be a water drop on top of a sunmica table (sunmica cos that would explain the white streak and blue,which get converted to black and orange as complimentary colours,right? But I'm still at a loss to explain why the title would be something like "White Hot".)
Third: The back of a ladybird, with the dot being one of its spots?(of course the problem here is it would be white after colour inversion)

Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:37:00 AM  
Blogger ?! said...

Agree with vand. Close up with lips. The line is the jawline shadow

Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:43:00 AM  
Blogger catcharun said...

it's time to adopt a shift, communist or not. i'll stick with the eye and this is the photo of Mr.T from the A-team ..the white streak is one of his sideburns that extend down to his jaw.

http://www.ritilan.com/archives/images/2005/01/06/010604-mr-t.png

"I pity you,fool"

Saturday, January 21, 2006 7:00:00 AM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

ok people, some comments:

1. title has no bearing on any of the puzzles
2. this photo is not of a living thing.
3. i shot the photo. i haven't come within 1 mi of mr.T.

Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Photo of a painting of a face of say a dancer or a diety. I guess it can be the forehead and top right corner is some decoration like the kumkum or something.

Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:27:00 PM  
Blogger catcharun said...

wait a minute...
it's a flying saucer shot near area 51 since u said it is inverted that black line must be a stream of dark matter that probably caused one of those wild fires

this is nearly impossible da. i suggest the next clue be the first,last and midddle letters of the answer :)

Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

1)pic of the profile of a warrior..obj being his eyelids
2)pic taken from a plane of fields and a road and some dist obj:)

Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

catcharun - crazy mohan influence aa

Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The green thing is some bottle
(I dont know what the white 'surf' is doing there)

Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:56:00 PM  
Blogger catcharun said...

spot on bubby..

it has to be a picasso painting. the whole thing oozes cubism. the eye is just a random eye..the lines are randomly placed tree branches and the minute hand of a clock also placed with random exactness

Saturday, January 21, 2006 7:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

1. A bullet
2. Some weird kind of flag
3. Syringe tip

Saturday, January 21, 2006 9:57:00 PM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

I'll give it another day with the larger pic before revealing the answer.

Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

BTW,i wuz checking ur archives yesterday and stumbled upon the colour inverted pagoda.....it looked nothing like a pagoda! so if this puzzle is as tough,i give up.........

Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The green object is Lord Shiva's Netrikkan?

The white streak is the veebudhi pattai

Nattamai, teerpa seekram sollu

Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:49:00 AM  
Blogger ?! said...

Mmm. If a painting, more likely a iconic one than cubist.

Somehow can't get rid of feeling that the top right object is the glowing tip. Match/ciggie. Beats my as to what the white ( black color inverted) streak is though.

Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:01:00 AM  
Blogger lenscrafter said...

ok guys, this has to remain unsolved. the answer is: it's the double yellow line in the middle of a road, and the object is a catseye reflector, commonly used in all roads to indicate the dividing line at night.

once you color invert it, it's pretty obvious with the larger image. i will post that too.

Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow!! that is one tough nice one, good one da Arnie, and put the full image soon.

Sunday, January 22, 2006 5:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Engayooo poitta

I thought it might be a kolam (the white).. cha, kolam poda road-la irukka yellow line-nnu sollaama poittaneeeee

Sunday, January 22, 2006 6:24:00 PM  

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