Like Ghosts Flying Out of the Windows

Photo date: January 21, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

In this series of posts I have shown an incredibly strange photographic anomaly in which light seems to rise up like drifting smoke: the effect I call the light metamorphosis.  Below we see another example of this phenomenon.  Note that the details of the photo are completely sharp except for the strange streaks of light.  The camera was not moving when the photo was taken.

The exposure time was only 1/30 of a second. The photo was taken (using normal settings) by an old Olympus point-and-click camera that normally produces no such effect.