[perspective] the zebra and the barn

I wasn't sure if I was clear on the concept of perspective. I understand what it means as it pertains to drawing. I googled and found perspective distortion in wikipedia. A link at the bottom of the article took my to Kevin Willey. OK, so I tried to set up something similar and well, I didn't get what I was looking for. The problem is my telephoto won't photo so close and I didn't have enough room to back up. But you can see the results of just using my wide angle zoom and the shots taken at 23mm and 54mm.






1/1
f/16
Manual
ISO 100
23 mm
14.0-54.0 mm f/2.8-3.5
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. E-410



1"
f/16
Manual
ISO 100
54 mm
14.0-54.0 mm f/2.8-3.5
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. E-410

I am posting this and I go to find the sites for the links and google. This time I am on my desktop and the results are a bit different. Weird. Anyway, here are a couple of more articles about perspective which I think are worth reading.

Photo Composition Articles
Shot Addict (this article is more what I was expecting)
XarJ Blog (clever and funny examples of perspective photography)