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Two Fer Caving & Orbs Part 2
 
Had to crawl through this hole to get to the last chamber
 
Friend and caving expert Kenny
 
Orbs found in this particular chamber only but it isn't dusty. When I shot this pic. I saw what looked like blips of lights lighting up on my screen much like fireflies
 
Realised that there were orbs in this pic.too only when it was enlarge on the computer
 
More orbs some on enlarging looks like solid gold coins with distinct patterns
 
They look pretty like snowflakes, this is the original shot not doctored by photoshop or any other programme. Have shot many photos before and this is the only time I have seen anything like this.
 
I shot this just to see if I could see the fireflies effect without looking at the camera screen, sure enough I saw it with my own eyes and at the time I thought that it maybe caused by reflections of limestone crystals
 
The whole chamber seemed to be filled with orbs though I did not know about it at the time. I didn't even know about the word orbs
 
This is one of the pic. which captured one orb only and looks very solid like a ufo or a gold button. This was just a random shot for me to see if my eyes could see the firefly effect and I captured this. Well Mr.Mulder and Scully over to you or any friends out there to help explain the phenomena. This is surely not a speck of dust.

The term orb describes unexpected, typically circular artifacts in photographs. Sometimes the artifact leaves a trail, indicating motion.

The technical photographic term for the occurrence of orbs, especially pronounced in modern ultra-compact cameras, is backscatter, orb backscatter .

The orb artifact can result from reflection of light off solid particles (e.g., dust, pollen), liquid particles (water droplets - especially rain) or other foreign material within the camera lens.

The image artifacts usually appear as either white or semi-transparent circles, though may also occur with whole or partial color spectrums, purple fringing or other chromatic aberration. With rain droplets, an image may capture light passing through the droplet creating a small rainbow effect.

In addition to optical effects, orbs have also been considered[who?] in some circumstances to represent various kinds of paranormal phenomena such as light beings, aliens, extraterrestrial spacecraft, ghosts, or some type of elemental being. While there are scientific explanations for the appearance or orbs in some photographs, existing scientific theories fail to explain all such appearances[citation needed]. An example is the consistent appearance or orbs and other moving light phenomena in photographs at certain locations such as the ECETI ranch in southern Washington state near Mt. Adams. Orbs consistently appear in large quantities in photographs here regardless of the type of camera used, regardless of the time of day or weather conditions. The preponderance of orbs at such locations exceed current scientific explanations and remain unexplained phenomena. Source Wikipedia
COMMENTS
Lageho said at 8:54 p.m. on Jul 7, 2009:
This is great. Nice work. I visit a place like this in Lebanon.
Moabjeeper said at 9:35 p.m. on Jul 7, 2009:
thanks for the lesson and info.
ConnieL said at 9:48 p.m. on Jul 7, 2009:
Wow, Teo, this is great. I've never seen anything like this.
Snooway said at 7:04 a.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
cool!
Tishfish said at 7:25 a.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
WOW great find ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Chilla said at 7:26 a.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
Teo, this is amazing and to imagine how much you would have missed seeing without your camera. Excellent and very interesting shots and captions.
Hhwind said at 8:17 a.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
Thank you Lars,Bob,Connie,Sue,Doreen and Celia for your comments. Has anyone any encounters with orbs since many of you are experienced and long time photographers. Would love to hear of your experiences and views.
Shenresi said at 8:34 a.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
wonderful and very excyting adventure in great shots, Teo!!!
Chaitiamma said at 10:34 a.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
Something entirely new to me. Would like to experience this !!!
Ira said at 12:02 p.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
Very interesting places and phenomena
HtD said at 1:02 p.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
beautiful Teo
Grandbrother said at 2:56 p.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
I've been through a few caves, but never had anything like this show up. Looks like some kind of dust particles floating around in the air or something. And that last shot of the "single orb" looks like the lit up end of a flashlight pointed slightly down and to the right.
Buschinho said at 8:56 p.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
great shots and adventure tour
Hhwind said at 10:15 p.m. on Jul 8, 2009:
Thank you, Angela,David,Ira,Henk,Sean and Buschinho for your lovely comments. Sean, I am incline to think that it may have been caused by dus particles but the single orb was shot at an open space which was pitch black with a flash. Anyway thanks for your opinion.
Wildthing said at 7:21 a.m. on Jul 9, 2009:
Those orbs are truly amazing. Obviously some alien life form that live in the caves. That would be far more interesting than a reflection off dust motes.
Isralev said at 2:52 p.m. on Jul 11, 2009:
You did nice work, Teo, thank you.
CANDYCANE said at 11:44 p.m. on Jul 16, 2009:
YOU DID A GREAT JOB ON THIS. NOT SURE I COULD CRAWL INTO ONE OF THOSE CAVES THOGH, I AM KIND OF CLOSTO PHOPHIC. GREAT SHOTS THOUGH. RHONDA
Hhwind said at 10:47 p.m. on Jul 17, 2009:
Thank you Mike,Isralev and Rhonda never thought that I would be scaling,crawling squeezing and sliding through these caves until I reached there. We have quite a lot of caves but most i have been too are what I term as commercial caves in that the track are well laid with stairs or granite paths and lighted up for tourists but this one is for adventure
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