Orbs

IrishAirCorps

Anybody else notice them after taking a flash photo at night? Sometimes i have been to graves in the City doing research and taken a flash photo of a grave and when i check the image i just took i see the Orbs, my mate says its gasses from the ground but i disagree.

Lust4Life

Yup!
My Husband's father passed away just months before our wedding.
Took three family photos with the whole gang in hubby's family in 3 different locations. All 3 had orbs in them. Was Father In Law joining in on the family photo???

L4L

my_house

its impossible to say orbs dont exist or have any link to the paranormal, but many many many many of them are either artificats from digial cameras or reflections from using a flash.

this site has some nice insights into orbs:
http://pyrrho.s5.com/orbs.html

Duff

I've also noticed that particularly when using a digital camera, when taking a photo ,the slightest speck of dust can show up and they look identical to an orb..

DublinWriter

SaxoDuff wrote:

I've also noticed that particularly when using a digital camera, when taking a photo ,the slightest speck of dust can show up and they look identical to an orb..

They are also down to lens defects.

Lenses degrade over time.

Having said that! I briefly lived in over of the oldest pubs in West London (existed since the 12th century) and any photo I took of the rooms were full of orbs.

6th

DublinWriter wrote:

They are also down to lens defects.

Lenses degrade over time.

Having said that! I briefly lived in over of the oldest pubs in West London (existed since the 12th century) and any photo I took of the rooms were full of orbs.

I have to say in my opinion in themselves they are more likely nothing other than dust and reflections of moisture in the air. To be able to say any else about they you must have something more, like a feeling of a presence, readings on something like an emf or some evp.

Of course on their own they could be paranormal but why presume the far reaching?

Its like if a light buld keeps blowing in the same place of a house, that in itself could just be an electrical issue ... but lets say its in the same room where someone had killed themselves?

Taking a orb as being something paranormal based only on the fact that it appears in a photo is probably not the smartest thing to do for anyone with any real interest in understanding the paranormal.

littlebug

I would tend to go along with the dust, bugs, moisture theory myself. However... I recently trawled through all my photographs (all family photos- I'm not a photgrapher by any means!) on the pc and I was surprised at where the orbs showed up.
1. Christmas day, there was one just over my father in laws shoulder at the dinner table.
2. A couple of days before my second baby was born, one hovering by the doorway in a pic of me and my elsest.
3. My baby's christening- in 2 or 3 pics in the church during the actual christening there was one just by my husbands leg.
4. My nephews confirmation. Family photo there were 3 or 4 of them in a couple of pics of the whole family. None in the pics of just 2 or 3 people together.

others- there were some in a few pics of my kids clowning around in the sitting room.. all on the same day and one other in my kitchen.. again pic of the kids.

That's it.. as I said my instinct is to go with the dust etc theory but I was surprised by the occasions that these orbs showed up i.e christmas, christening and confirmation. ok a few days before baby was born was not a religious occasion so maybe that one should be down in the "others" section.
Of all my digital photographs, orbs showed up on almost all the religious occasions that we had any pics of. There were none at pics of my eldest's christening (not my camera- someone else's pics) or of christmas just past.

i'm not actually religious at all but I did find this a bit freaky!

P

IrishAirCorps

6th wrote:

Of course on their own they could be paranormal but why presume the far reaching?
l.

My digital Camera is Brand new and i know how to clean it free from dust spots etc i reckon it is paranormal as i have only seen them over Graves and i have taken loads of night time images like of the moon as i like Science etc and like to photo the craters on the moon and i have never come up with anything like what i see over graves

6th

its not just about dirt on the lense, i've studies photography, it can be the light of the flash hitting moisture in the air or any other particles.

My aim is not to take away from your photographs (i havent seen them) its just a general point about orbs.

If anyone has an orb in a photo that didnt use a flash i'd like to see it.

I've taken lots of pictures of orbs, some i feel are paranormal but must i pass off as nothing. In saying that even the ones i feel are paranormal i dont say that they are 100% its just that i have other informatin to lean me in that way.

my_house

i once read a study where they checked 10,000 orb photos. 9,988 were fake but they couldnt explain the other 12. Thats all Im kinda syaing - real orbs can exist but they are very very rare

DublinWriter

6th wrote:

If anyone has an orb in a photo that didnt use a flash i'd like to see it.

Exactly, I also remembered any pic I took indoors that showed orbs usually had a number of light sources in the pic, e.g. lamps, tv, etc, etc, and seemed to be basic internal lens reflections/defects.

Why don't we post up some of our orby pics?

Here's one I took in the rooms in a pub where I lived briefly in Staines back in 2001. It was called 'The Angel' and there was supposed to be a pub on the spot since the 12th Century.

Notice the orb on the curtains. Now look at the reflection of the flash from the screen. It's pretty obvious what caused the orb.

6th

Here's a post I made before concerning photos of orbs i took:

6th wrote:

These photos were taken at St. Paul's Capel directly opposite where the twin towers stood. The church was not damaged on 911, none of its windows where smashed, the waterford crystal chandeleers was untouched, yet the building beside it was bdaly damaged including over 2000 windows smashed - I can understand why its gotten the name "the Miracle Church"
A CNN news transcript with the story of the church during 911 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/11/se.02.html



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Very warm dry night, no rain that day or day before but cant rule out dust as its Ground Zero and they are building, still I would have expected all the pics to be pretty much the same .... did i catch them off guard in the first one?

btw my sceptical (and beautiful, hi babe) wife was amazed when she saw this pic staright after it was taken, and she's not quick to believe things!

6th

This was taken with a flash, but as I said earlier I'm not telling anyone what to think about these pics. They went hand in hand with me feeling something, and i took more pictures at 1 minute intervals to look for consistancy.

Lust4Life

6th, you sure have some apples on ya!
Wouldn't catch me in a graveyard after dark. And with a camera no less!

L4L

6th

Ah not as brave as it looks (ask anyone whos been in Charleville with me ).

That was taken through the railings on a very busy street and i was with a tour of about 14 people, mind you i was the onlyone not looking at ground zero.

Riamfada

6th wrote:

Ah not as brave as it looks (ask anyone whos been in Charleville with me ).

i had to hold his hand for hours !!!





some orbs outside charleville however I snooped around Tara and the adjoining graveyard one night. Tara as we all know was the site of the High Kings of Ireland and dates back thousands of years . In the mound in the following picture there were thousands of individual remains found and No orbs! Not one!





I also used the same camera on both occasions.

Riamfada

I'm going to go on a wild 6am theory here. Could we be seeing the spirits of the relatively recently deceased? Its rare that contact is made with ghosts dating back over a certain number of years? (in my experience with most haunted and other bits and pieces) . Your 911 pic could be showing those who died in the attacks while Tara's history goes back much much farther. Just a thought