One of them just stood out to me and I’ll call it ‘the Sorcerer’. Don’t know if you see the same thing as I do… I had to do some cropping and cloning to remove smoke patterns that didn’t help the picture, to bring out the shape better.
I went through all the pictures again, rotated each picture just in case, and couldn’t find any other familiar shapes worth working on. So I decided to try another editing technique: mirroring.
At first, I tried some images by duplicating the image, flipping it, and moving it next to the original image (so in effect, the total picture size was doubled). In some cases I first cropped the image before duplicating, so the end result would be more appealing. Have a look at an example here.
Then I moved to a slightly different technique: duplicating the image, flipping it, and setting blending to ‘lighten’ and leave it on top of the original. This has the advantage of bringing everything that’s left of the center to the right and vice versa. Examples below.
I’m not done yet with playing with these pictures, I still have to try out blending in other images.. but this is it for now.