What am I seeing?
Sometimes you just can't tell what you're looking at in a picture. Here are some recent examples of things that aren't quite as clear as they could be.
For instance, what do you think this is?
Seaweed wraps?
Magnet backing?
The Black Burger
Nope. Slices of black cheese.
Above, a Burger King employee holds two black hamburgers at a company restaurant on September 18, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. The black burgers, one a Kuro Pearl, left, at 480 yen, has black buns and cheese smoked with bamboo charcoal and black sauce made of squid ink. The other, the Kuro Diamond, at 690 yen, comes also with lettuce, tomato, onion and mayonnaise. The burgers are available from September 19 through early November in Burger King restaurants throughout Japan.
Fireman?
Vulcan, the Roman god of the forge?
Beelzebub?
Self-immolation as protest?
Lianhuo
A man runs through burning charcoal barefooted as he participates in a traditional ritual called "Lianhuo", or "fire walking", in Pan'an county, Zhejiang province, China, Sept. 17, 2014.
Lianhuo, a traditional local ritual listed in 2005 as an "intangible cultural heritage" of the province, involves dozens of men walking across burning charcoal or firewood barefooted, as a way to ward off evil and pray for good fortune.
Forward
Directions to the check-out lane?
A reason not to stop?
A new tunnel waits for customers
A police car sits in front of the PortMiami Tunnel as it is opened for the first time in Miami, Fla., August 3, 2014.
The tunnel, that took three years to build and cost an estimated one billion dollars, was built to alleviate cargo traffic in downtown Miami.
Surf race?
Boarder Marco Polo?
Last one in, picks up the tab?
Surf's finally up
Surfers fight for a wave after large swells caused by Hurricane Marie continued to pound the Californian coast, at Venice Beach, Aug. 30, 2014.
Surfers enjoyed some of the biggest swells of the year while city officials use tractors to fill in sand berms to protect coastal beaches.
Mascot convention?
A punch line from a bad joke?
Recruiting event for the Empire?
Dark Lord of the Pitch
A person dressed at Darth Vader of the Star Wars saga, throws out the ceremonial first pitch as a costumed storm trooper stands by the mound before a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, Sept. 5, 2014.
I can't explain the horse, though.
Frosty morning
Frosty fall morning?
The mists of autumn?
Snowmaking in September
Two ski resorts in Maine, Sugarloaf and Sunday River, tested their new snow-making equipment on Friday morning, Sept. 19, 2014 as temperatures dropped below freezing.
Yes, it is still summer.