The wife bought me a killer scanner/printer for xmas (HP G55) and we've been going thru all our pictures to scan. We came across a couple of oldies we've never been able to figure out. I took these 2 pictures, plus a part-enlargement of the one, and made a single pic and uploaded it. The link is below.
These pictures were taken with the same camera, and the pictures taken before and after each of these pics on their respective rolls were fine. These pics are as they were thrown into the scanner, no messing around whatsoever!
Now, I'm vaguely familiar with light reflection, refraction, and otherwise realize that their's usually a reason for what gets captured on film. But these pictures have me baffled! Even if wierd light existed that caused these pics, the coincidence with reality is spooky!
The top picture was taken xmas eve '99, of Vick's youngest with his early xmas present. We've always considered him our "evil one". This pic totally fits that description! NOTES: flash was used, but there are no mirrors, or any other object to reflect/focus light. There's a sliding glass door to his right, but the wall is in the way! He wasn't wearing any glasses or contacts...
The bottom picture was taken at Flaming Gorge, where we parked the boat to camp for the night. We were taking a pic of our 2 friends walking around--kinda hard to tell, that's why the enlargement. The "reality" part of this picture, is that the night before, we all got drunk as hell, and they ended up having a brutal arguement, and were talking divorce after 9 years of marriage! The picture was taken about 8:00am, while they were making amends with each other. Skies were overcast, and the sun didn't peek over the east mountain until after 11:00! So there was basically NO reason for weird lighting effects! Almost seems like some "force" was there, watching over them!
The Pictures
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