Neat

Ok here's what you do. Next time you have a bonfire, grab your camera. Set the shutter speed really high so that only the highlights of the flames get through and none of the ambient light. Then take pictures in continuous shoot mode so you get, like, 300 pictures in two minutes. You need that many because most will look like nothing except dark fire. Weed through them, though, and you'll find some seriously cool shapes, like these:

The upper half of this one looks like a slightly evil face: man with large mustache wearing a fedora (right half of face in shadow).


And here we have (in the upper left) a beast with ram's horns and long sombre humanoid face. Could be related to this guy.


This is Cosette from the Les Mis poster.


Here you can see a man - probably an early French explorer - looking sideways (to your right) and slightly back. He's wearing a large cloak and a strange hat.


This is among my favourites. It is a full-length view of a woman walking to the right, carrying a bundle of some kind. Her face is completely in shadow, but she looks determined.

Side profile of a viking head with horned helmet. Looking up and to the right.
This one looks like nothing (maybe a surreal seashell) but I love how solid it seems.