looks like a fake bullet hole for film make up effects?

I hope you publish the answer on your site too. Don't leave me hanging Sam or should I say WVS.

It's the place where, some day, a branch was attached to a tree... :-) Nice shot! I like the metalic-rusty look. :-)

Looks to be a pomegranate to me. My favorite fruit. Been a fan of your photos for a long while Sam, every day brings a new great image. Thanks for sharing with us.

looks like an upside-down mushroom cap in dried mud.

What is it? Pinatubo in about 10 years? A mole in a hole? Anyway - again interesting and very well done!

I'd take a stab at some part of some sort of wood; what in particular I have no idea.

Chocolate chip cookie?

a mushroom?
or an... uhm...

I think this is a little knot on a piece of wood or a tree or something of the same sort...I might have gotten the wrong vocabulary by naming it a "knot", but I hope you know what I mean!

Nice shot!

It looks like a drop of rain that fell into desert sand, but that would be unlikely.. So I must go with a tree trunk, where the bark has been removed, and that spot is where a branch used to be.

pomegranate?

Coffe bean? Chestnut?(-:

Hmm... Isn't it a dried pomegranate? I'm thinking maybe.. In a pot pourri form, that sort of thing?;)

a tree trunk

Bark of some tree?

Looks strange but good.
I quess it's a part of a tree.

I'm currently living in Korea and your photos always give me great memories of the beauty back home in Canada. I've started to put several of your pictures on the background of my school's computer. Your photos always cause a lot of commotion amongst the Korean teachers here. In short, they all think you have a great eye as well! My guess for this shot? A rotting knot on a log of wood. Take care!

Tree knot :-)

pomegranate!

A mushroom?

It's a wart or tree scar.

I'll be the first to guess. It looks like the bark of a tree or a seed pod. I love this site! From "downunder"!

Looks like a branch or a stick.

wow. i have no idea of what it is. looks like a home of some creatures perhaps.

Hmm....could it be the top of some sort of fruit/vegetable.... like a pomegranate? Perhaps a knot on the limb of a tree? Whatever it is, fine sir, you sure do have a way with the camera. Keep up the awesome work.

Looks like a rupture in some oxidated metal to me.

Rust, maybe?

I guess it's a Chocolate cake.
(really nice blog, by the way)
Peace.

Pomegranate?

Hmm. It looks like a pomegranate?

Its a knot on a tree, or a section of bark on a branch?

I found this site only yesterday and blown away by the photography. I am guessing it is some type of mushroom that has been flipped over. :D

Isit a twig??

Isit a twig??

My guess:
The bark of a tree? (Or a very bad spot...)

Great pics on the site, my current favourite is Ocad's Building on McCaul Street taken from the bike.

Close up of a pomegranate ??

T

Top of a pomegranite?

It's a knot on a log....

Athena from Preston County, West Virginia

It looks like either the knot of a tree, or damage from termites/borers

Top view of a beheaded old pomegrante !! :)

It must be pomegranate (:

Rust?

pomegranate

Hmm, looks like some part of a tree. Was this taken in the same place as yesterdays shot?

I'd say it's a bubble on a cappuccino, but it's equally likely it's one of those depth-of-field-blur, make-it-look-like-a-model manipulations of a Martian volcano. But that would require a Canon 100mm macro-to-Hubble Space Telescope adaptor, and I doubt the filter rings are compatible.

Guessing a branch or something else tree related???

Nice DOF and colours tho ;) very interesting

a melted chocolate chip in a chocolate ?cookie? brownie? :)

Nice crater - rust perhaps? Or the latest virtual fly-by from the super-secret mission to colonize Mars for nefarious purposes.

pomegranate ?

1. Hail that fell through a maple leaf?
2. The back of a former member of the Saprano gang?
3. A negative of a piece of chewed up gum?
4. Out of focus
5. A red christmas cookie shot by a B-B Gun ?
(You'll shoot your eye out, kid!)
6. Effect of raven poop on a plaster of red flour from 5000 meters high.
7. My brain on Saturday night after a fun Friday evening?
8. Closeup of the Moon with a Hubble telescope during moon rise and a lot of dust in the air from Marapi Volcano ?
9. An interior shot of George Bush's brain?

A piece of a wooden log?

A pomegranate

What do I win?

Neat shot!

Underside of a mushroom with the stem pulled off? No idea.

Nope. But it doesn't look good.

I think it's the surface of a fruit or vegetable of some kind. Perhaps a potato?

some part of a tree???? some wood material???

Anyway, cool picture. I wonder how you did get this red...

Pomegranate?

I guess a shot impact, 9mm ? :)

looks like a mushroom...

a break in someone's skin?

Knot on a tree trunk?

I guess it is a flower bulb

Rusty steel - close up of old screw hold????

Is it the top of a pomegranite?

Rusty hole in metal

I guess its a rusted peice of metal where a pole or something used to be. But then it also looks like bark on a tree.

By the way I went by photogrammetry yesterday it was pretty cool. I really liked the photo of the BMO and the TD bank towers. It was almost like it was a drawing.

Just felt the urge to guess..
it's the only remaining part of a branch right?!
btw, your pictures and this site is truly inspiring!
keep it up!

It looks like the end of a pomegranate.

... chocolate cake? :)

I am going to guess something like tree bark....

-if it is something else, I hear you can clear that up with a little bit of antibiotic cream.

Is it a pomegranate?

A pomegranate?

Wait!Wait! Is it the bottom of fragmented iron-grid? Or....the hole of car-aerial?

I just seriously hope it's not a body part!

A tree?

Cool photo whatever it is!

pomegranate

Bark on a tree?

a pomegranate?

the underside of a mushroom, stem removed?

is it a pomegranate?

I'm guessing a pomegranite? Cool shot!!

A poped pimple????

Is it a tree trunk with some sort of disease?

It looks like bark, a knot in a tree?

A knot in a tree?

Looks like the top of a pomegranate. It looks almost like the planet Mars has sprung a pimple.

Could it be the underside of a mushroom minus the stem?

Pomegranate?

Tree bark, where a branch broke off?
Either that, or terrible acne.

It looks like a knott in a chunk of wood... is it bark?

A pomegranate?

It's a pomegranate!

A dried out orange?

mushroom, looking at its underside, where the stalk has been removed.

Is it a knot on a tree trunk?

Brownie!

or Cake.

Tree Bark?

Sam is that a close up of a knot in a tree? I'm not sure I'm usually not good at these guessing games...hehehe

infected pimple? :D

Oo Oo! The Eye of Sauron! And getting on in years, I must say. ^_^

looks like a chocolate chip cookie, with the chip removed...

I looks like a pit of rust to me at a glance, but if I look really close, I cannot tell. It is a great shot and I can't wait to find out what it is.

rust?

Maybe a slightly burnt ketchup potato chip? I think it's a Lay's... yes, definitely a Lay's.

looks like a chocolate chip cookie, with the chip removed...

with utter conviction I'll say the underside of a mushroom with the stem removed. please wire my prize money to me immediately :)

I think that it is a rust bloom on a painted piece of steel.

cigar?

a dried wound maybe?

Looks like the end of a pomegranate :-)

It's a Lays Barbecue chip.

I have a dried pomegranate right here and your photo looks very much like it.

I have a dried pomegranate right here and your photo looks very much like it.

Top of a Pomegranate!

I vote pomegranate.

I'm going with the tree/branch theme!
fantastic photos - when I'm feeling blue here in London, Grey UK - I just have a quick flick through - thank you so much

pomegranate!

It looks like the top of an acorn where the little handle ripped off.

woah ! where'd you get that echography of my embryo ?

It's a fantastic macro. Very beautiful DOF, focus and color tone. I think it's a branch.

It looks like a pomegranate.

pomegranate!
Macro does wonders!!

It's got to be a pomegranate....right?

New Guess...

Eye of a toad.

I don't know what it is, but I'm very concerned now because just as this image was pulling up, someone from my company's executive office just dropped in with a job request. He had puzzled expression which I noted with mild interest. It wasn't until after he left that I realized what was on my screen and what he was looking at. I'm a bit mortified at the moment.

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If you had not mentioned the lens, I would say "Esophagus" taken by an Endoscope!

a crater on mars

thats all i got.....
nice stuff

I think it might be the top of a birthday muffin with the candle pulled (Happy Birthday?).

Great Photography BTW.

I probably need therapy, but my first thought was "advanced melanoma." Sorry folks, but I live at high elevation with lots of sun. I actually hope it's one of the more pleasant 'organic' guesses.

pomegranate???

Maybe it's been guessed before, but the top of a pomegranate?

It's a rusty bullet hole in a knot in the trunk of a pomegranate tree.

tobacco? leather? tobacco leather?

hmm

Annar!

انار :)

I think it's the node of a tree.
Cause it looks like a macro of some sort of wood...
Very nice one :)

I'll vote for a chocolate brownie or cake

I think it is a pencil sharpening.

Pomegranate, for sure -- it has been an unusually good year for them, it seems!

Hey !Did anybody burn out the pan-cover?

mushroom?

its a knot on a tree

Interesting shot. A first glance I thought it was some kind of tree?!

Mmmm... I bet it is a brownie. Two bite brownies... great stuff. Your pictures always invoke thought. I enjoy your daily posts.

its a pomegranate.

Steve C. - I think you're on to something as it was Talayeh's birthday the other day!

Sam ... when are you going to put us out of our misery and tell us what on earth this is?!

Pomegranate is in the lead. I simply don't know. And that's a good thing. :-)

freshly backed brownie

hmm... my first thought was a knot in a tree trunk?

is it the top of an acorn cap? (oak tree seed thingys)

red onion or maybe a beet?

a brownie!

Ok

some sort of rusty metal with a screw hole.

a wound or a cut that is healing.

I can't belive that no one has said ant hill? Call me crazy, but that was the first thing that came to my mind. I know the red has thrown alot of you off, but i think i just might be right for once in the life. Is there a prize. When do we find out. Tomorrow. Keep up the good work.. Love ya

For some strange reason, it looks like some kind of candy or dessert to me... a piece of wood would be my second guess.

mount etna

Annaaaar=pomegranate

ok, that's enough - time to tell us!

Well i think it is a hole made by rust in a steel object.
Maybe i'm right, maybe i'm wrong.
Who knows ? You do !

I think it is part of a fungus like a mushroom or puffball...thanks for your site I'm a big fan of yours...Dan

Looks like the nipple of Ramses II the Great. RIP

Mushroom, defo.

maybe the texture of a Lay's ketchup-flavoured potato chip (that's got a burnt part to it somewhere in the middle of the chip)?

got to be corrosion, a "rust bubble" if you will. great macro

ant hill is the first thing that came into my mind too. I wonder if Sam will publish the answer here... hum...

It looks like something that has been burnt from the inside and this is the escape vent. Or maybe a bullet exit hole in a metal plate. Could it be a mini volcano? I know that's a wild one. How about a rusty nail hole? Baffled!

Looks like a SMOKER'S NAVEL. :^)

chocolate chip cookie ...

It's a puffball mushroom, that's the hole in the top of it.

Haha!! I remember that old one you did with the ikea lamp!! exept that time you changed the file name! i tried this time but you were one step ahead! I'd say a pomegranate

looks like a pommegranate to me too! Is the answer somewhere ??

I think Francois is right. Looks like some of the pock marks that appeared on my old '38 Dodge years ago. As always great pictures.

yeah I think its a part of a tree branch. in another note, 170 co!!! wow you have broke the mark!!!:-)

Pomegranate, yes. Could be another kind of fruit or not, but I'm fairly certain of pomegranate.

You took a picture of my nipple!

First of all it's another wonderful photograph of yours! And I guess it's a pomegranate!!! It always looked like a volcano to me and it's more like a real volcano in your outstanding shot!

so it is a pomegranite

thats a preeeettty awesome shot! :)
nice stuff!
please do more of the "guess the object in this picture"

thanks -
---andrea m

Fruit? Nope! Mind your teeth. It's just a bursted bubble of oilcolour on rusty iron!?! And -- a witty fotographer's eye!

great shot!

it also might be interesting to see this one with a larger depth of focus

tree

So you've discovered a new planet the size of a pomegranite........

Wow, this must be the most commented on photo in a photoblog....ever! Can anyone match 183?..84?

Well now you've already said it, but initially I thought it was the trunk of a tree.

I do not know.

the bubble that burst on the top if a chocolate cake