Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Still experimenting

I recently went to an auction. One of the items that came up was a boxful of cannisters of color print film with a speed of 200. The film was dated 2004, there was 14 of them. I suppose because it was so far out of date no one bid on it. I took a chance and got it all for $1.00. Being a semi professional photographer in my younger years, I realized that film stays good unless subjected to temperartures above 90 degrees for extended periods of time. I also know that film that is refrigerated will last almost indefinitely. So film in a climate controlled store would be good a long time past expiration. I immediately took one of the rolls and placed it in a camera and shot the whole roll at everything in sight. I shot the whole roll and got it ready to mail to be developed. The roll came back perfect. The pictures were mundane to the point of boring but the quality was quite good. There were no unusual globes or disks or funny light points. With film this cheap I figured now would be a good time to shoot areas where the strange disks had shown up before. My second roll of cheap film came back photographically perfect and I had some good dog pictures and some out of doors blossoms that were quite attractive. But there were NO disks, globes of light or anything else strange. I just sent away film three, it hasn't returned yet. If Beltane hasn't passed yet; I want to try some photos of the interior of the house during that period. I gotta look it up.But so far, I've only had disks show up in photographs taken on Halloween and on the shortest day of the year and they showed up on both film and digitile images. I read a report on one of those paranormal sites that felt they had proved that these "globe" artifacts were actually dust particles or some such. They had used an old stereo camera and shot around an old house said to be haunted. They got globes but the globes only showed up one or the other of the stereo photos. Never on both at the same time so they felt they had proved their case. I feel otherwise because if the globes were caused by dirt why wouldn't the same dusty mote be picked up by both lenses? There is only one flash, not two. Besides their examples are white globes. I have taken pictures in areas of dust and got these globes as well. I know they are dust flashbacks. But the anomaly I have been picking up in this house only on special nights is not a white globe but rather a perfectly circular clear ring. My processing company cannot explain it and a local professional photographer said he had never seen anything like it. So until I get a logical answer I'll continue to try getting them and record the dates they show up.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

House quiet

The house has been unusually quiet for sometime. Nothing unusual occurred in April at all. If things go as usual, it'll probably be October or November before the house becomes active again. But then again, I've been wrong before and there is no rhyme nor reason to the strange activities in this place. Normally the most active period is from late October up to March or April. Other than replacing half the house roof, I have no major activities planned for the house. Inside renovations have, in the past, caused an increase to the strange. Beyond painting the Noahroom which is almost finished, none others are planned inside. I won't report if theres nothing to report.