Your outline is gone, period. Now... do the colors blend in with your surroundings? Absolutely not, and I think that's what some are seeing here.


In your treestand pic, imagine if you were about 10 yards to your right... where the trees end and the sky starts. Those white blobs which are so effective at obliterating your outline now would simply make it vanish against the skyline.

Have your picture-taker walk about 10-15 yards to their left, so that we as viewers will see you as a deer would when you were skylighted. That's when this pattern performs its best.