Sean likes to take pictures with my camera and sometimes he comes back with some pretty interesting stuff. And sometimes I have no idea what he has photographed. So I’m hosting my first ever “Whut The Heck Izit” photo contest.
I have never given away anything on my blog before, but I had dinner with Chilihead Friday night and after a Sangria Swirl, she made it sound like fun. But then everything sounds like a lot more fun after a Sangria Swirl.
So then, Sean will randomly select a name from the list of guessers and will personally send the winner a fabulous prize. No not really. It won’t be fabulous. It won’t be a $500 gift card to Lowes or a Wi-fi (whatever that is) but it will be a prize-ish prize-like sort of prize. I have no idea when the “contest” is over because I don’t really like rules.
With no further ado, Whut The Heck Izit??
Pat says:
A child in a yellow rainsuit with red rainboots, playing in the rain!
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Lisa in California says:
It a picture of the rain on the ground reflecting the colors above it.
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
jen elslager says:
And sometimes I have no idea what he has photographed.
So… do you know what this is?
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Susan J. says:
What concerns me are what appear to be bare legs floating by.
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Jen says:
I would say… something reflected in stainless steel… or the TV on a fuzzy channel.
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Mary Beth says:
It is different colors of paint on the asphalt after some icy winter weather. The brightly colored painting was run over by a bike or a car with muddy wheels!
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Honor says:
Hi, new reader here. I found your blog by clicking through a gazillion different links, so no real way to tellyou how I got here. Anyway, I’ve been lurking off and on, and thought I should say hello.
My boys often take photos with my camera, too. As a matter of fact, during my brother-in-law’s wedding, I handed my camera over to my 9-year old. Since he had no real concept of staying out of anyone’s way, or waiting until people were “ready” for the photo, I have a bunch of fabulous, unstaged photos that make for wonderful memories. And he got right up in the front row while they cut the cake!
People seem to be less threated by a kid with a camera than an adult who fancies herself a wannabe photographer.
Anyway, I’m guessing the mystery photo is of chocolate cake with lots of colored frosting or sprinkles. Though I’m not sure what caused the blurriness – it looks like maybe it was taken through patterned glass. Interesting shot!
Have a fabulous weekend!
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
mama speak says:
I’m w/the yellow rain jacket & red boots; maybe a multi-colored umbrella too?
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Wander says:
A picture of the backyard taken through vertical blinds while it’s raining outside?
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
kittyhox says:
Some kind of elaborate boy-toy (race track or something), out in the backyard? Photo taken on it’s side through a very strange sort of window?
What is it?
Inquiring minds want to know!
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
tracey says:
It’s a picture of a tv show, right?
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
ColleenM says:
Alright, I am craving chocolate, so to me it looks like a piece of chocolate cake decorated with frosting and sprinkles.
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Sarah Kate in WA state says:
My guess is that it’s a close up, sideways view of a piece of chocolate cake w/ sprinkles and colored writing/icing.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Heidi says:
A toy (Lego Bionicle, maybe?) reflected on a tin can.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Brigitte says:
I fear it may be one of the Doodlebops on the TV!
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
alex says:
distorted reflection of elmo? or sesame street character?
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Becky says:
Do you have a vase or a decorative window of rippled glass? I see wavy glass that is distorting whatever is on the other side.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Kacey says:
Anyone can see that it is the inside of your oven! How long has it been since you cleaned it?
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Jenny says:
reflection on a rainy street? it’s abstract art!
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
chickadee says:
you dancing?
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
A&EMom says:
It seriously looks like your camera is broken, and there was likely water involved.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
A&EMom says:
Okay, I turned upside down and asked my 4 year old… tub toys through the shower curtain!
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Beth says:
I think it looks like cupcakes or a cake through some type of glass.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Angie says:
It definitely looks like a quadruple decker hamburger with mustard, ketchup and M&Ms. Either that, or I am really in the mood for junk food!
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Carrie @ Three-Girl Circus says:
Hmmmmm, a reflection of some sort….maybe it’s sideways and those are trees and grass and well, I don’t have a clue really. Very interesting. People pay good money for art like this!
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Lisa W. says:
To me, it looks like a pic of toys takem through a pane of rippled glass.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Geri says:
ummmm it’s the tv rolling?
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Yvonne says:
Looks like chocolate layer cake with sprinkles….or maybe I’m just craving that right now…..
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Jeana says:
I’m seeing a Ninja Turtle, two Rescue Heroes (one the astronaut monkey, the other maybe Billy Blazes?) a Tonka Truck, a couch and the back door in the back ground. I’m guessing he moved the camera while he was snapping the photo.
And sure, go on and rub it in that you had dinner with Chilihead.
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Krista says:
I’m seeing through either wavy glass or a shower curtain only it looks like a couch with toys on it. (turned sideways) and those look like windows on the right side/top.
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Sharon M. says:
It looks like Sean took a picture of the toys in his toybox( the one that he was sitting in in the last post) through the not so seethrough wall of the toybox.
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Photochick (Amanda) says:
OK! After MUCH contemplation… To me it looks like the upside-down reflection of a yard gnome on a rainy surface (sidewalk, driveway, patio?) I also think it looks like the gnome’s in front of a door on the right side, and a bush on the left.
)
Dead wrong? Probably! But at least it’s detailed! HaHa!
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
a Tonggu Momma says:
I’m with A&E Mom … tub toys through the shower curtain, with the photo taken vertically, even though the shot itself is horizontal.
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Laura says:
My guess is it’s a crazy clown getting out of his or her car in a parking lot in the rain. I think that would be interesting enough for a kid to want to take a picture ;o)
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Jean says:
I think it’s a reflection of Sean taking a picture of himself through the sliding glass door and he’s got his rain boots on. Of course it’s raining outside and he’s got the camera sideways.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Natalie in TX says:
I have no idea on the picture but the sangria swirl sounds great! I just recently started drinking those again this last month after not drinking them for too many years. Please forgive me Frozen Margarita Machine!
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Jennifer says:
I see a gumball machine…and some blinds in the background.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Daren says:
I’m going with the shower curtain.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
danana-banana says:
One of his sand toys out on the patio – picture taken through a window or glass door.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Kim says:
Peeking through the mini-blinds on an overcast, rainy day, we are seeing a Hot Tamale crossing the street while wearing a coat of many colors and a yellow hard-hat. He is totally oblivious that we’re observing him.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Karen @ Simply A Musing Blog says:
Okay…Here’s my edumacated guess, sans sangria:
It’s a self-portrait of a certain little boy wearing red sweats and a yellow shirt/jacket while standing outside your back (?) door in front of the bushes with his bike. It is raining and the rain has puddled up around the dirt piles on top of the asphalt.
How’d I do?
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Edi says:
crayons
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Sara says:
Another vote for chocoate cake with some kind of sprinkles or mini M&Ms on it taken sideways with a wavy glass cake keeper lid. Or a tank with dirt and colored rocks for some kind of reptile?
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Diane J. says:
This is a piece of brightly decorated chocolate cake, probably birthday cake, in a corrugated clear plastic deli container. Rotate the picture a quarter turn counter clockwise and it’s easier to make out.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Doris says:
oil spills on a rainy road
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Kristin Evans says:
I think it’s sideways – It’s colorful toys sitting on a window ledge on a rainy day. The brown is the floor or maybe a desk?
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Kara says:
Hm, a playground through a rain-streaked window? (sideways) My boys love taking pics with my camera too and they normally get their feet and the TV lol.
February 24th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Natalie says:
Hmmm…methinks it is chocolate cake, in a plastic container (as someone already mentioned) or through a glass – a drinking glass, perhaps.
Or maybe the camera has sangria-goggles?
February 24th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Starbuck says:
I think it Sean’s hotel boat. Or maybe Big Bird playing jump rope with Elmo.
February 24th, 2008 at 12:27 am
diXymiss says:
I think it’s a piece of frosted, colorfully decorated, chocolate cake as viewed through an empty glass of milk. ThanX for triggering a craving…
February 24th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Paulette says:
How fuuun…. is it Seans lego boat on wheels house we saw on that precious video? Greta job Sean what a fun game!
February 24th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Jim says:
I think it is a “melted/ing” chocolate Easter rabbit, that waited to long in one place for that helium balloon to come crashing down in the House of Antique, which was left over from the Birthday Party last Fall.
Actually the picture was perfect that Sean took, but when AM went to download, she was under the influence of Sangria Swirl and accidentally done a double exposure, thus creating a flawed picture.
February 24th, 2008 at 1:30 am
TransitionGirl says:
Looks to me like a burger with many many layers, stuffed with M & Ms.
February 24th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Sharon says:
I’m guessing it is the television. My seven year old is forever taking pictures of her programs and they often look ‘smeary’ like that!!
February 24th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Cindy says:
Yup, I’m going for the chocolate cake with chocolate icing smears on the plastic lid if it is store-bought; glass cake cover if it is homemade. Now I’m hungry.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:32 am
fern says:
Looks to me like crayons left out in th sun too long!
February 24th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Julie says:
My guess? A toy resting on a towel on the edge of the bathtub, inside the shower curtain.
February 24th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Lexi says:
Toys, through a glass….?
February 24th, 2008 at 11:44 am
CircusKelli says:
The reflection of a piece of chocolate cake with red frosting and M&M’s on top of it sitting in a puddle.
February 24th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Stephanie says:
AN ALIEN SPACE CRAFT FILLED WITH FROOT LOOPS POURING ITS LOAD ON THE BEACH
February 24th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
jayedee says:
sean holding a lego creation of his
February 24th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Scott says:
I think it looks like a close-up of a drawing Sean made of his mommy. Looks just like one that my daughter made of me. Perhaps we are long-lost wins? Sure do miss you, sis.
February 24th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
sophia1212 says:
Sushi of banana and red bellpeppers.
Sushi of colorful M&M’s.
Sushi of Lego.
Afterall, Sean IS creative…!!
February 24th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Lori says:
i’m guessing it’s a picture of slice of chocolate birthday cake, with chocolate frosting and some writing in different colored icing. it may or may not have sprinkles. i’m guessing this after turning my laptop all around at all different angles….now i’m dizzy so i hope i’m right!
February 24th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Cheryl says:
I think it’s a slice of three layer chocolate cake with chocolate icing. The colors are from the writing on the top of the cake.
February 24th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Lillian says:
Do you have one of those plastic “build your own trumpets” or build a marble-run thing – definately looks like one of those – I’m going with the “as seen through glass” suggestion.
February 24th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Kai says:
Looking out a window at a car parked in the driveway with its tail lights on and a rocking horse behind it
I actually love this photo…it’s very abstract (obviously) and a great use of color. I hope to see it in the Art Gallery of Sean someday!
February 24th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Julie says:
My guess is that it is chocolate cake with chocolate icing and colored sprinkles. Maybe the cake is on a cake stand that has a wavy glass cover on it? The picture was taken sideways.
February 24th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
happy Mommy says:
I think this picture was taken through glass, it looks like M&M’s and melted chocolate. I think I am hungry.
February 24th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
ChristyCate says:
Ok… I see AM’s fingers (maybe they’re AD’s) and a toy (is it Handy Manny, a toy soldier, or perhaps an Indian with tomahawk and bow and arrow included)Oh, and your window… Were you holding a coffee mug?
February 24th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Snapshot says:
A reflection in the water left on the street after a rainstorm.
February 24th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Andrea says:
Is your shower curtain clear? This looks like toys seen through a shower curtain. Or maybe standing in the tub and looking out.
February 24th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Praise and Coffee says:
The Great Wall of China?
No, really…is it the lego chateau he made on the video?
Sue
February 24th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Jan says:
HA! I know what it is!! It is a sideways photo of chocolate birthday cake with sprinkles. The cake is in one of those plastic round box things like you might get if you get the cake at WalMart.
Yay!! I win!!!!
Either that, or it is MacArthur Park.
February 24th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Cathy says:
I enlarged so as to see it better. That is a Big Mac with mustard and ketchup instead of special sauce!
February 24th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Kim says:
I think it is plastic action figures through a plastic shower curtain liner.
February 24th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
amanda says:
He has taken an artful shot of himself, thighs-down, apres bath, into the bath tub or shower stall, whose doors are still wet. Beyond the doors are all of his colorful toys!
If it’s not that, it was raining outside and he took this through the sliding glass doors, and it’s a deflated bouncy-jumpy thing outside.
LOve the picture and your idea!
February 24th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
edj says:
reflection…of part of a wall and a couch with some sort of toy/blanket or something on it…
February 24th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Gretchen says:
Is it the TV going bonkers/flipping between channels?
Great fun.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Kara Messner says:
I believe I see a gum ball machine in there lots of gumballs (and also a mysterious arm in the background). Would LOVE to know what it really is. Do you know?
February 24th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
mrsNehemiah says:
a hand holding a pinwheel taken through a glass of water.
Mrs N
February 24th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Paulette says:
yep I came back to check it out def a piece of chocolate cake with bright icing.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Debbie says:
Reflections in a puddle.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Pam says:
I’m going to guess a hand holding and dropping M&M’s – lots of M&Ms. And maybe some more chocolate. And are those colored candies…
February 24th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Nicki says:
I have no idea what that thing is. Ditto to all the good answers.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Happy Geek says:
I’ not exactly sure, but there was something awfully similiar in my fridge last week. I just threw it out.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Tom says:
It’s one or two of his fingers, on the other side of a jar or vase made from some kind of linearly-banded glass. And something along the lines of a brightly colored monkey in the background.
Or it could be something else entirely.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
SG says:
Sorry but I didn’t read all the other guesses. I am guessing that is the reflection of a tail light of a black car in a puddle and there is something else, maybe a bumpter sticker reflecting more colors?
February 24th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Betty G. says:
Sean, I think this is a colorful plastic toy in a rainy reflection. Am I right? (I have some grandsons in Memphis who would LOVE to play with you sometime.)
Betty in Oklahoma
aka Grandma of 12
February 24th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Smockity Frocks says:
Someone already said this, but I think it’s a reflection of someone in a rain slicker on a rainy driveway.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Elaine says:
Something with Playdoh? I have no idea really…
February 25th, 2008 at 1:03 am
purebillow says:
The view from Sean’s Hotel Boat!
February 25th, 2008 at 1:06 am
mama speak says:
Wait, upon further reflection (and reading more answers) I think it’s Sean’s Hotel Boat or a bunch of legos behind a wet shower curtain. Maybe a a Southwestern theme shower curtain?
February 25th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Carola says:
No idea…really, I pass…good for you because had I guessed correctly you would have had to send me the present overseas!
February 25th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Miss Sniz says:
I’m sure it’s too late, but I want to make a guess! I didn’t read any of your insanely numerous comments, but my guess would be a photo of brownies or chocolate cake with sprinkles seen through a watery, rainy piece of glass, then the whole picture put on it’s side!
February 25th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Mary Ann says:
Towels and moisture seen through a shower door?
February 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Starnes Friend says:
It has to be: Santa Claus! Have YOU ever seen a picture of him??? I didn’t think so.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Lori says:
It’s an original JackSean Pollock!
February 25th, 2008 at 10:26 am
zoom says:
Great play on words Lori.
Hmm.
Reflection of legos in a puddle of water…
February 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Aunt Murry says:
It’s a puddle reflecting the front bumper of a bus with the crossing guard next too it.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Aunt Murry says:
Or maybe Elmo in the abstract.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Marianne says:
I think it is bags of candy through a rain-streaked display window…except the pictures been rotated 90 degrees clockwise. Or he rotated the camera a funny way. After all, if I was his age, I would take pictures of bags of candy!! And they were probably at his height, too.
Pick me!!
February 25th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Elizabeth says:
It’s a shot taken through a lego sculture while the cameraman was moving a bit too fast.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Elizabeth says:
Make that “sculpture” LOL
February 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am
shayne says:
I think I should get the prize-ish-sort-of-maybe-kinda-prize-thingy, for personal injury. I nearly rubbed all the skin off of the pad of my forefinger from scrolling all the way down to the bottom of the comments so I could put my 2 cents in.
Now it hurts to type and I HAFTA type. It’s sorta in my job description. (stupid job) heh heh…just kidding Lord…I LUV my job. Yep. Love it, love it, love it. Which is why I spend so much time on this site trying to figure out what the heck Sean took a picture of. Which I think is a piece of chocolate cake
on it’s side, taken from underneath the plate which is glass. I think.
O.k….will begging work??? PUH-LEEEZE????
February 25th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Shalee says:
That, my friend, is a very unique view of a piece of chocolate with chocolate icing (with sprinkles!) birthday cake.
How about the prize be that you come up and have dinner with me? Because when I read the bit where Chili and you went out, that little green monster made me really want to be there too! I will not be jealous, I will not be jealous. I will not… Okay, I will, but I’ll do it with a heart that says I’m really glad that you and she had a fabulous time!
February 25th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Katina says:
Could it be a handful or armful of toys underneath a glass top table.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Elaine says:
At first I was convinced it was a puddle, but now I can see it as nothing other than chocolate cake.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
LeeAnn says:
I started with thinking it was the rear tailights of a vehicle (sedan?) reflected in a rainy driveway, but now I’m going with the turn-the-image-sideways gang and thinking it’s chocolate cake. Or maybe an ant farm?
February 25th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Sharon says:
It is a triple big mac (burnt) dripping with ketchup, mustard and an unidentified blue condiment
February 25th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Sarah S. says:
I haven’t read through all of the comments, but reading through some of them helped me get it. I was CONVINCED it was a rainy day pic of a reflection, and the chocolate cake guesses were just ridiculous to me, but when I turned my head sideways — there WAS the chocolate cake, with some brightly colored icing. It appears to be smooshed up against its container/ plastic cake carrier thing (’cause I’m guessin’ the cake came from a Tom Thumb-type place) and some of the icing is in the grooves (which is what someone said appeared to be bare legs floating by).
February 25th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Renna says:
The view through a window (from outside) which is iced over, with icycles hanging down, taken with the camera held sideways?
That Sean, whatever it is, he seems to be quite the little abstract artist!
February 25th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Joan Crowson says:
A picture of his “moving lego hotel” while Sean is moving with it and the camera – quickly!
February 25th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Cyndi says:
Yeah, I’m with the chocolate cake people. Looks like the top of the container got smushed against the side of the cake and transferred frosting. Nice perspective!
February 25th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Michele Idaho says:
I think it just might be a fork squishing through some chocolate cake.(Has there been a recent birthday?)
February 25th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
shayne says:
Shayne is now lusting for chocolate cake. She is becoming one of the Chocolate Cake People, as referenced by Cyndi.
Must…go back…to…work…
February 25th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Annie says:
Husband says hamburger and I say “What the heck is it?”
February 25th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Liz G. says:
A Wendy’s Triple Cheeseburger with Ketchup, Mustard and M&M’s as seen through the drive thru window during a rainstorm.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
MAXSNANNIE says:
LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog, I love to laugh and your site definitely does that for me!!!! I don’t have a clue what the picture is but I love anything Sean draws, says or builds because he reminds me so much of my precious grandson Max so whatever it is….it’s great!!!
February 25th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Tina says:
That is some tasty looking chocolate cake under glass with a thick layer of chocolate frosting and colorful sprinkles.
Beautiful modern art Sean!
February 25th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Rachel says:
i agree! – chocolate cake and sprinkles and colorful icing and we’re looking at it through glass – maybe a glass cake holder thing?
February 26th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Sarah says:
Maybe the chocolate cake with sprinkles is in a glass bowl? A close up? He’s got a good eye. I’m going to comb the cupboards for some chocolate now.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:03 pm