Monday 17th September 2018
In recent weeks, I happened to spot the accompanying photographs on social media and have been kindly granted permission by the owner to reproduce them here. The images are pretty self explanatory - click on them to 'enlarge' - with pics 2, 3 and 4 being 'the same' / 'views from the same' photograph.
The images were taken by a young man while he was out walking his dog in Wythall, North Worcestershire. The location concerned is a spot known as 'Packhorse Field', which is situated opposite The Packhorse public house and directly behind the parish graveyard.
Regarding the pictures - by way of simple explanation - the man had briefly said: "I took two pictures of my dog and can't believe if I've caught a 'ghost' or not? The pictures were taken one after the other, and, while the first shows nothing, the 2nd shows what appears to be a 'white mist'...... I'm intrigued to see what you think it is?"
Personally speaking, I believe that the anomaly simply shows some form of naturally occurring 'artifact' - bug, dust particle, or some such 'item' - situated too near the camera lens to be 'represented properly' in the resulting image. This is exactly the same sort of effect which leads to the so-called 'Orb Phenomenon'.... where simple dust particles are - through close proximity to the lens of the camera - represented as perplexing, out-of-focus, spherical artifacts and so on.
However, despite this simplest of explanations for such effects, the 'tone' or make-up' of the image concerned will always carry a lot of weight in the mind of the beholder.... and the picture shown here especially (in my humble opinion) is a rather interesting and impressive example of how such photographic glitches can sometimes 'take on a feel of their own' and potentially lead people to read more into the image than there actually is?
To use the aforementioned 'orb' - as a convenient example - such things will generally appear as a blatant, round 'blob', usually superimposed 'on' or 'over' whatever scene is portrayed in the picture concerned..... In the dog walkers photograph, however, the 'anomaly' concerned genuinely gives a feeling of 'being in' the scene itself...... appearing in a position on the pic to convey an impression of 'sitting within' the scene we are viewing..... It - would you say it is somewhat 'head shaped', perhaps? - appears to be almost, 'coming out of' the darker, open patch, within the hedge-line seen?
Of course, these observations and suggestions are nothing but an optical illusion.... but, of course, a great many would neither recognise it as such or - more importantly - 'wish to accept it as such' once an explanation was given!?
What do you think on the topic?
Personally speaking, I believe that the anomaly simply shows some form of naturally occurring 'artifact' - bug, dust particle, or some such 'item' - situated too near the camera lens to be 'represented properly' in the resulting image. This is exactly the same sort of effect which leads to the so-called 'Orb Phenomenon'.... where simple dust particles are - through close proximity to the lens of the camera - represented as perplexing, out-of-focus, spherical artifacts and so on.
However, despite this simplest of explanations for such effects, the 'tone' or make-up' of the image concerned will always carry a lot of weight in the mind of the beholder.... and the picture shown here especially (in my humble opinion) is a rather interesting and impressive example of how such photographic glitches can sometimes 'take on a feel of their own' and potentially lead people to read more into the image than there actually is?
To use the aforementioned 'orb' - as a convenient example - such things will generally appear as a blatant, round 'blob', usually superimposed 'on' or 'over' whatever scene is portrayed in the picture concerned..... In the dog walkers photograph, however, the 'anomaly' concerned genuinely gives a feeling of 'being in' the scene itself...... appearing in a position on the pic to convey an impression of 'sitting within' the scene we are viewing..... It - would you say it is somewhat 'head shaped', perhaps? - appears to be almost, 'coming out of' the darker, open patch, within the hedge-line seen?
Of course, these observations and suggestions are nothing but an optical illusion.... but, of course, a great many would neither recognise it as such or - more importantly - 'wish to accept it as such' once an explanation was given!?
What do you think on the topic?
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