I've always loved the stories about when people get their photos back
from Walgreens or CVS and these mystery blobs and blurs are present:
"Sir, I think there's something wrong with one of my pictures...the
negative seems to have this glare that wasn't there when I took the
picture."
"Well, sire, you might have some paranormal activity there because it
couldn't possibly be our machine. Every weekend, we have Swiss
engineers come and calibrate the whizbob and pachoodal bulbs."
"You don't say! Wow, I think I'll give the Discovery channel a ring!"
Herschel wrote:
I did just that when I'd read the post and googled "ORB"
I made some images of my late father, using a metaphysical image
processing technique which is a closely guarded secret that only
members of a particular elite group of occultists have access to,
the result terrified me....
Before that it all sounded like a load of orbs
I'm a believer
(In the spiritual realm of Photoshop)
Herschel
Mark Blackwell wrote:
IF it pays enough though, one could fake it in photoshop. :-)
--- On Fri, 12/12/08, editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Looking for photos of ORBS and related "parrranormal"
subjects
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 9:57 PM
I don't have any photos, but only have the following
story to relate.
When my daughter was about three years old, my wife noticed
that sometimes Megan would suddenly straighten up and even
have a look of alarm on her face. When queried, Megan
responded that she saw "ghost bubbles". My wife
wanted to get to the bottom of this but Megan was insistant
that they were real and in fact was surprised that we
couldn't see them. Megan was even able to describe them
fairly accurately and consitently. This would happen again a
few time over the next few years but eventually the
phenonmenon went away. A few year later my wife saw an
article in the paper or magazine about paranormal
"orbs" and showed Megan the photograph -- Megan
non-chalantly stated "that's them!"
Anyway, just thought you'd like the ponder the concept
that perhaps such orbs are not "photographicable"
in the normal sense of the word.
Michael
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADavidhazy [mailto:andpph@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 04:02 PM
To: 'List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals -
Students'
Subject: Looking for photos of ORBS and related
"paranormal" subjects
Dear PF members, I was contacted by a free-lance writer for
a photo magazine about debunking claims of extraterrestrial
or force field nature of things widely known on the Internet
as "orbs" and "mists", etc. - as well as
any other possible manifestations of paranormal (whatever
_that_ is!) activity captured by a camera but not seen by
human eyes. If you have some examples of such images and
would not mind sharing I'd be interested in them. I
don't think there is any payment involved (just to be up
front about this) buy maybe. thank you, andy
