While in Texas visiting friends, reader Melissa McGurn took pictures of their clever dog 'Shaft'.
"Shaft does a trick where when you pretend to shoot a machine gun at him with your fingers, he commando crawls around the room... I took 3 pictures within a minute or so while he was doing this and caught this on one of them... Like I said, no other pics on the camera (35mm disposable) had anything like this on them....", says a mystified Melissa.
I don't have a ready explanation. Being a disposable camera it would have had a relatively simple and cheap fixed lens system. Flash was used in recording Shaft's party piece, so it's safe to assume the shutter speed was around 1/60th of a second. Could this be a processing error? Unlikely, but not impossible I think. Maybe a hair, or fibre close to the camera lens and flash? Somehow I think this would be clutching at straws. I'm discounting a hoax, and besides I don't see anything to be gained by someone like Melissa fabricating a photo such as this.
I have the benefit of examining a full sized version of the image and it does appear as if an orb-like phenomenon, or two were captured while in motion. Melissa suggests this, or a vortex of some kind. I'll reserve judgement, simply because I am unable to explain it.
What is your opinion, reader?
FS thanks to Melissa McGurn - image © 2004
MELISSA@COOKIELAMB.COM
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