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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can see this spectacular image of what a plane might look like landing in the Gavà pine forest, in Baix Llobregat.
In reality, it is a brutal optical effect that gives the impression that it is landing in the middle of a pine forest next to the beach, but it is not.
I have captured the photograph from Gavà beach at a high point and with a lot of zoom. The visual sensation seems to me to be impressive.
An optical illusion leads us to perceive reality in various ways. It can be of a physiological nature, associated with the effects of excessive stimulation in the eyes or the brain (brightness, color, movement, etc).
Or also of a cognitive nature, in which our knowledge of the world intervenes (such as Rubin’s vase in which we perceive two faces from the side or a vase indistinctly).
Many artists have taken advantage of optical illusions to give their works a magical aspect, depth, ambiguity and contrasts. Photography does not escape this type of effect and perspective also comes into play.
In Gavà, a system of dunes and paths recreates the image of a Mediterranean beach that is not very humanized, with the coastal pine forest that increases the landscape value of the complex.
