The Spooky Light Made Two Inexplicable Turns

Photo date: January 17, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

In this post and this post I showed some spectacular photos showing a strange mysterious effect I call the light metamorphosis, an effect in which light seems to drift away from a light source like rising smoke.  Below is another authentic example of this bizarre anomaly. The camera was stable while this photo was taken, as you can tell from the fact that only the light from the TV looks streaked, not any other details in this photo.

A closeup lets us know what is going on here. The closeup below shows the light coming from the digital clock of the cable box.  Flowing out of the digital clock like smoke, the light makes not just one turn but two turns, changing direction two times.

The same effect is shown in the photo below. Again, notice that all details are sharp except the weird light from the TV. Click to open the photo in a separate browser tab, to see it in higher resolution.

A closeup of the digital clock shows that the light from it is making two different turns.

The photos were flash photos with an exposure time of 1/30 of a second, using normal camera settings (no "Night picture" setting).