Photo help

while down at the colo. river this weekend my wife and I took many photos and this was one

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would anyone be able to help with this...none of the other photos had anything at all remotely similar to this..thanks.

Here's a better view:



I have a question, were you smoking a cigarette when you took this picture? If so you could have caught the smoke in a glare. It could be a number of other things, but lets start with the basics

guess one has to look at the photo at the ats media or my profile as some of the photo was cut out when I embedded it...sorry

reply to post by glevel


Not to worry mate, I fixed it

Before we indulge on what this could be, it may be a smudge on your camera- a fingerprint or something like that, or the camera malfunctioning.
Whatever it is, its cool- although, I couldn't really see how it could be like a spirit because I've never know or seen them in this form....

reply to post by TheMythLives

...no...no smoking at all, and we had not lit our campfire yet...and none of the other photos had anything on them,

reply to post by glevel


Did you touch the lens as stated above by summer? You could have caught a glare from the sun and water combined. That does happen a lot around water. I've seen that happen A LOT, its not uncommon. Especially around the snow environments, which is not your case, but it often happens their as well. I would say its not a spirit, but glare that turned out very nicely

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I do not know what it is...none of the other photos had anything on them...took several around that time period on sat nite...nothing appears anywhere, and the next picture around 630 am sunday has nothing but the water and ducks i took a photo of.

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I am hoping you are right...I love to go camping there as it is so remote and peaceful...it just weirded me out ....I would hate to give that spot up.

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thanks for the fix too..I was clueless how to do it
second line.

reply to post by glevel


Just looks like something too close to the lense to me, a bug, hair, I don't know but I wouldn't automatically jump to conclusions and assume it's something paranormal.

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Why are you worried about giving the spot up? Spirits don't bother or hurt people. No one has ever died from a ghost. Don't fear them, negtive emotions and feelings only bring negative results.

Its cool none the less though, I would get that picture framed..lol.. Seriously, it would make a nice conversation piece.

right on....it is more interesting than the ducks and the vultures I photographed... I am glad it is nothing...the very idea of spirits makes me nervous. Thanks for the input.

Looks like it could be long hair, a camera strap, or something else. If you're not using an SLR camera, you don't know what's hanging in front of your lens or flash when you're taking the photo.

Fog from breathing out? Was it cold enough for that?

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lol...only if you consider 100+ degrees cold. It was around 115 down on the river that day, and it was still quite warm when I took the picture.

The usual explanation put forward by photographic experts when viewing this type of anomoly is that the camera strap has slightly dropped in front of the lens. Your anomoly is in the right place for this if you consider that most cameras have the strap attached to the right hand side of the camera, and most people who take pictures simply have the strap drapped over the back of their hand or hold it with their fingers.

Could that be it?