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[Timonthy]

skeptik19, on 13 October 2011 - 01:57 AM, said:

I expected all of this and more.
it's the internet

You don't seem skeptical enough to have the name  'skeptik19'.

What do you think it is?

[binky1]

that my friends looks like a photoshopped oar fish

[Chrlzs]

skeptik19, on 12 October 2011 - 09:01 PM, said:

I took this pic while camping just east of San Diego, CA about a year ago. Camp Cuyamaca.
I was taking random pics with my digital camera of the site just before sundown. I never saw this with my own eyes, I saw it a minute later while going through the few I just shot.
I thought it would be easier to find interested people and I don't know how I feel about this kind of stuff but I thought it needed to be out there for the pros to analyze.
http://i.imgur.com/N363g.jpg

please let me know what you think

I think what is unexplained is.. if you expect "pro's to analyze" this, why you haven't told us what camera it was and why you have posted a tiny, exif-stripped non-original 640 x 480 image that is very heavily jpeg compressed to the point where it contains virtually no usable detail...

[ShadowSot]

Looks like cigarette smoke.

No photo manipulation required.

might just be condensation from breathe, though it looks more like smoke.
Don't see anything that would make it paranormal.

[skookum]

Must admit the first thing that came to mind before reading the thread was smoke.

[iamdee1]

If it is cigarette or smoke from a fire, why does it go up and come back down again.  I'm a smoker and we have a fire pit and I have never seen smoke do that before?  Smoke usually goes up and fades away.


If it's a paranormal activity, I would say it looks the most like a doorway of some sort, although, I have to admit I've never seen anything like it before.

If your camera lens is dirty, clean it.

[Moonie2012]

iamdee1, on 13 October 2011 - 02:34 PM, said:

If it is cigarette or smoke from a fire, why does it go up and come back down again.  I'm a smoker and we have a fire pit and I have never seen smoke do that before?  Smoke usually goes up and fades away.

...huh? That doesn't make any sense. The smoke in the pic isn't doing anything out of the ordinary. There are these things called air currents that carry smoke all over the place...

Edited by Moonie2012, 13 October 2011 - 02:41 PM.

[iamdee1]

You don't see the arch shape in it?  What would cause that?  If it is  smoke, then what, two fires that meet in the middle?  

There is definitely two points that are coming up and/or going down to the ground.

And why would the smoke at the top come to a dead stop and not be seen higher up?

Edited by iamdee1, 13 October 2011 - 03:48 PM.

[HerNibs]

Cig smoke.

Nibs

[Moonie2012]

iamdee1, on 13 October 2011 - 03:45 PM, said:

You don't see the arch shape in it?  What would cause that?  If it is  smoke, then what, two fires that meet in the middle?  

There is definitely two points that are coming up and/or going down to the ground.

And why would the smoke at the top come to a dead stop and not be seen higher up?

Smoke and wind can form whatever random shape(s) it wants to at any random moment in time, it's fluid not solid. I don't understand what your point is.

Edited by Moonie2012, 13 October 2011 - 04:01 PM.

[iamdee1]

Moonie2012, on 13 October 2011 - 03:59 PM, said:

Smoke and wind can form whatever random shape(s) it wants to at any random moment in time, it's fluid not solid. I don't understand what your point is.

I don't have a point, I am just trying to understand how smoke would cause that shape.  I would think smoke would go up and stay up but I'm not an expert on smoke.  So I thought I would ask.

Surprisingly, that is how I learn new things.

Edited by iamdee1, 13 October 2011 - 04:06 PM.

[Moonie2012]

iamdee1, on 13 October 2011 - 04:04 PM, said:

I don't have a point, I am just trying to understand how smoke would cause that shape.  I would think smoke would go up but I'm not an expert on smoke.  So I thought I would ask.

Surprisingly, that is how I learn new things.

Smoke goes up, wind blows it down. Wind beats smoke.

Edited by Moonie2012, 13 October 2011 - 04:05 PM.

[jaguarsky]

I am not sure what might have caused it, but it is obviouly a camera artifact of some kind, light reflecting off something and either the slight jostling of the camera, the shutter speed, or an object actually moving, like a bug or something being blown by the wind, created the sense of motion in the photo. I get them all the time in low light situations. They are almost as ubiquitous as "orbs".

[iamdee1]

jaguarsky, on 13 October 2011 - 04:08 PM, said:

I am not sure what might have caused it, but it is obviouly a camera artifact of some kind, light reflecting off something and either the slight jostling of the camera, the shutter speed, or an object actually moving, like a bug or something being blown by the wind, created the sense of motion in the photo. I get them all the time in low light situations. They are almost as ubiquitous as "orbs".

That sounds logical to me.  Thank You.

[skeptik19]

you're an *******

Mike G, on 13 October 2011 - 02:11 AM, said:

Well, yeah. Did you think you would post that pic and get handed an award for providing proof for the existence of ghosts or something? Of course it and you will be questioned.