An Island of Applied Gestalt and Natural Inkblot Tests

Let's have some fun!

Take a quick look at the images and answer the question!
(no cheating, please - just say the very first thing that comes to mind)

Somewhere along the southern shores of Kefalonia. Look for it!

What do you see in the first image? Is it a seal, a dog, a dolphin, an eagle, or something else?
What about the second image? Is it a dog's paw, an elephant's foot, or something else?
Do you see a wimpy cloud or an eagle taking off in the third image?

From Myrtos to Assos, or vice versa!

I'm sure that most of us have had these "eureka" kind of flashes. You know, that cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something unexpected. 

Who remembers Behavioral Psy 101?

I have vivid memories of those "splats" of the Rorschach evaluation method that seemed so ridiculous at first, back in college. A person's reaction or response to these ambiguous forms was supposed to reveal significant information for the evaluation of his/her personality and perceptions. 

On the other hand, Gestalt theory—and all its sub theories of grouping, similarity, proximity, emergence, symmetry, closure, e.t.c.,—was the hottest topic in management, marketing and behavioral psychology lecture halls. After all, it did make a difference—or so the instructors claimed—whether a person "saw" an old woman rather than a young girl depicted in the drawing being passed around. Or, seeing a circle in an incomplete arc, or a square in four incomplete perpendicular lines! 

Of course, as diligent students, we memorized all the pertinent facts: the human eye "sees and perceives objects in their entirety before perceiving their individual parts," and our senses do have the "form-generating capability" to fill the gaps in information presented. 

When applied to stimuli in the environment, this simply means that we understand them as a whole rather than the sums of their parts. And this "whole" is greater than the sum of its parts. Sounds very scientific, doesn't it? I'm pretty sure that most of us, at that tender age, wondered how in the name of heavens would all this ever be applicable to anything in the real world. 

Well,  I finally do see the light! 

Storms and birds of prey over Sissia Monastery
Sometimes, though, all this science comes down to seeing with the eyes of the heart.  
And, speaking of hearts...

Mt. Aenos' misty heart

Snow-capped Mt. Aenos as seen from Xenopoulo, Kefalonia

Sunrise over Poros viewed from Xenopoulo, Kefalonia

The smooth curves forming Poros Ravine viewed from Xenopoulo, Kefalonia

A grafting cut or a message on this walnut tree?

I've learned to decipher the natural inkblots in the Kefalonian sky in a way that would blow my professor's mind:
IT ALL DEPENDS!!!

An aging Greek God looking down on Kefalonia, a vagabond heart, or just a cloud?

Is that an old witch with its back to the Livatho skyline, or a black sheep trying to find its way back home?

A happy poodle following a camel, with both flying over Vardiani Islet? Or, do I need to have my head examined?

At last! An inkblot with only one interpretation: Just another majestic sunset at Avythos Beach!