Photo date: December 8, 2014. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
In this water drop photo, we see yet another example of the orb centrifuge effect, in which orbs seem to speed rapidly around the outer edges of a water drop. If you look closely, you can seem to faintly see some smiles amid the swirling. See my posts labeled "orb centrifuge effect" for 63 other examples of this strange phenomenon.
As I discussed in great detail in this post, there are many observational facts that refute the theory that paranormal-looking orbs are just specks of dust a few inches away from the camera. One of the more dramatic of these things is when an orb photographer gets a picture of an orb behind a distant obstruction. I have quite a few such photos, in my 28 posts labeled "air orb too distant to be dust."
The very successful orb photographer Yvonne Scouller just released a very sharp photo of this type, which can be examined by using this link. For another equally dramatic photo of the same type by this photographer, see this link. Both of these very clearly show orbs at least 12 inches from the camera, which clearly refute the concept that orbs are little specks of dust floating two or three inches from the camera lens. (See this post for links to Scouller's photo stream and lots of other sites by paranormal photographers.)
Could a skeptic salvage such a theory by imagining bigger specks of dust? No, he couldn't, because the maximum size of airborne dust particles is about 1 millimeter (the size of the period at the end of this sentence). To explain photos like the photos above, you would need airborne dust specks the size of baseballs, which simply don't exist.
Photo date: June 22, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photos below were all taken in front of a memorial in New York City to honor soldiers who died in the Civil War. Here is the first photo. (None of the spherical-looking objects shown below is the moon, which was only a crescent moon this night; and as usual, there were no more than about 5 stars visible in the New York City sky.)
Here is the second photo.
Here is the third photo.
Here is the fourth photo.
Wow, it looks like I may have stumbled on to an "orb hotspot" here.
There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night. The air quality as listed on airnow.gov was "moderate," with a rating of 52 that almost qualified as "good." The pollen level listed on pollen.com was "medium" with a level of 6.7.
Photo date: June 21, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows an object on the ceiling of Grand Central Station in New York. What the photo seems to have captured here is multiple position states of a single circular object. It looks as if the object is changing color from white to blue (or vice versa). It also looks as if the object is making a sharp u-shaped turn, a type of turn that neither dust nor insects nor birds ever make.
You can see many photos on this blog of shockingly anomalous orb motions like this one, by looking at my 122 posts labeled "speeding air orb," or by checking out two of the "speeding orb" links on the top right corner of this blog.
Below is the larger photo from which the photo above was cropped.
Photo date: December 15, 2014. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
Here we see an orb floating among the commuters at Grand Central Station in New York. Did perhaps the commuters feel a fleeting chill as it passed by?
Incidentally, whenever I date a photo on this blog (as I do in almost all cases), the photo is being published for the first time. This is an old photo from my backlog.
Photo date: February 16, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
In the photo below we see two water drops. We can not see clearly any orb faces, because the orbs are moving too fast. What we do get in this photo is a strong impression of speed and energy, as we see the orbs hurtling around the edges of the water drops at great speed. It's another example of the orb centrifuge effect, shown in many other photos on this site.
The astonishing 12-minute video below is compiled from photos that have already been posted to this blog. The video shows 500 "orb faces" that appeared in photos I took of ordinary drops of pure, clean water.
What this video shows is the very amazing "water face effect" that I described in this post. I first noticed the effect in October, 2014. Since then, I have seen it on very many days that I have sat down to photograph water drops. This water face effect is basically that very large numbers of water drops that I photograph appear to have inside them what looks like faces.
Like all items posted on this blog, this video is 100% authentic, and consists only of unaltered photos that did not involve any trickery, special effects, or photoshopping. I have no idea of how anyone could fake a video like this, but I would imagine if someone were to attempt such a thing with this many detailed photos, it would require a world-class team of graphics aces, and a budget in excess of $200,000. I assure you I am not part of any such conspiracy. I've never even used Photoshop.
If you are interested in trying to make your own photographs like the photographs that make up this video, the technique I use for making these photographs is fully described here.
I suggest watching this video in full-screen mode (as you can do by clicking on the icon on the bottom right corner). I also suggest turning up your speakers, so you can appreciate the very nice ambient music by Lee Rosevere. Postscript: I may also note that many of the photos shown here consist of only a relatively small number of pixels, meaning that individual "orb faces" may be only something like 30 pixels by 30 pixels. It makes no sense to complain that an orb face that is only about 30 pixels by 30 pixels does not look as "realistic" as a photo of a human face that is 400 pixels by 400 pixels. Such "realism" requires a level of detail that can't possibly exist in a photo area of 30 pixels by 30 pixels.
Since making the video above, I have got new instances of the water face effect. See here for the latest examples, which are more dramatic than any shown in the video above. Below is one example, a photo I took while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a black featureless background.
Below are some other examples, all from photos I took on July 10, 2019 while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a black featureless background :
Below are some other examples, all from photos I took on October 29, 2019 while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a black featureless background:
Below are some other examples, all from photos I took on October 29, 2019 while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a black featureless background:
