How Can You Capture the Essence of Ghosts in a Photo?

[adjacent]

I should have taken another picture which reveals it, but I did not think about it at the time. But I promise I will tell exactly how I did it.

Capturing the moment after releasing the pencil with a high-speed camera?

 

[epenguin]

 

[PhysicoRaj]

Well here is another trial:

Does it work now??

 

[edward]

This is a not so good scan of a really old film picture. Sunlight reflecting off of something and onto the ceiling of the den was my first thought, but the only window in the room faces north.

 

[DennisN]

This is a not so good scan of a really old film picture. Sunlight reflecting off of something and onto the ceiling of the den was my first thought, but the only window in the room faces north.

Looks like this.

 

[Borek]

What I do in such cases is I put my hand close to the bring spot to see the shadow, then finding the source of the light is a breeze.

 

[zoobyshoe]

 

[ZapperZ]

Final day to post your ghostly photos for this contest.

Zz.

 

[edward]

What I do in such cases is I put my hand close to the bring spot to see the shadow, then finding the source of the light is a breeze.

I did find the source with no problem after the original shock of looking up at the ceiling just as I had awaked from a nap. A small ray of sunlight coming through an opening in the living room curtains 40 feet away was the source of light.

What that ray of sunlight was reflecting off of and then shooting the weird image backward and onto the ceiling was just as strange as the image itself. It was a very small object on the fireplace mantle.

The object had belonged to my deceased mother. The object had to be at a precise place on the mantel. The sun can only strike the mantle during a one week period near the end of December. I realized this later.

Even then the "effect" only happens just before sunset and only lasts several minutes before it fades away.

As I finally realized what it was I saw it as a gift. All of the pieces of the puzzle fit. Visitors always thought it was spooky.

I think I may have over explained

 

[Borek]

I think I may have over explained

Quite the opposite - I love such stories.

As long as they are not explained using voodoo parapsychology.

 

[DennisN]

Ok, the vote is over, so I've revealed my trick here in the voting thread.