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Orbs! The name conjures up little balls of white light. Most orb photographs are taken with digital cameras under extremely low-light conditions and are nothing more than digital flaws caused by lack of pixilation or filling of the proper colors due to a digital defect. I have viewed thousands of such …
One of the most accidental and often photographed anomalies is the Camera Strap. When taking photographs and often tilting the camera 90 degrees to one side, i.e. the vertical rather than the horizontal, camera straps can and will be photographed as bright white “vortexes” that always appear the same. They have serrated edges …
This is a detail from a picture taken in a well-known haunted house, the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, in the room where Charles Lemp killed himself in 1949. The bright spiral looked entirely unlike a thread or dust particle on the lens. Upon examination of the negative, the spiral could …
This picture shows an example of a print made from a negative with dirt or dust on its surface. Be very careful when handling negatives because some dirt is difficult or impossible to remove. If dust, dirt or prints appear on a new roll (not reprints), the problem most likely occurred in …
This image was made by placing the camera on a tripod with an exposure setting of ten seconds. The subject, wearing a long black coat, stood in front of the camera for about three seconds, then ran out of the frame, resulting in a semi-transparent image