Last HDR Photo for now

I'll be doing some more once I find some interesting locations, I'd say down the road at the beach.

At the moment I'm only using three exposures, but I've been reading about 9 exposure images, so I may try and figure out how to that.

Another HDR Photo

Here's another HDR photograph I've done. As I mentioned in an earlier post I'm doing it the easy way. My camera has a bracketing feature that takes 3 photos all at once each with different exposure settings, once you load the photos onto a computer you use a piece of software like Photomatix to join them and create an HDR photo out of the 3.

It's the easiest way I know off, but I know putting more effort in will create better results, so I'm working towards that.

UFO Photography Practice

I figured for me it would be hard to photograph UFOs, so I've started practicing.

Below are photos from my second Plane Spotting session.

So first off I got me a crop duster, dusting the hills just across the harbor.


I can't believe how much detail there is in the next two photos, never expected to be able to capture images like this with my camera, especially of a commercial airliner. I think these are of a Pacific Blue flight.

It's hard to Photograph UFOs

Well I was outside yesterday relaxing out in the last of the summer sun, had my camera in hand. I had wanted to take a photo of a contrail, but I had to recharge my batteries and this is all I got, not in its prime but they're always around here, I think planes begin their approach to Wellington airport over where I live.


Unhappy with not being prepared, I just sat outside watching the skies when it dawned on me how prepared really was I if I did actually get the chance to photograph or film something strange in the sky.

Luckily there's no shortage of planes flying about over where I live, so I started trying to capture them with my camera.


In the hour and a bit I was out there five planes flew by and that's the best shot I got, fully zoomed in with no reference points to help me, it's bloody hard. I know that with more practice I'll get better and I think planes are the perfect thing to practice on.

I have a whole new appreciation for blurred photos and shaky footage now, fully zoomed in on a moving object, only the best tripod will help, taking photos of the moon was hard enough.

Child Ghost Appears in Mobile Phone Photo

This is a pretty creepy ghost photo, reported by the Daily mail and photographed by 17-year-old Matthew Summers of his friends in Billingham.

The photo shows what appears to be the face of a child, the photo has been dismissed as nothing more than pareidolia by Most Haunteds Ciaran O'Keeffe.

Seems like to much of a simple explanation to me, the face is very distinct and seems to cross in front of one leg and behind the other, it also blocks out the continuation of the heater in back. Could it be photoshop?

Pretty cool ghost photo anyway.

A place that smells like rotten eggs

So I've been away on holiday and I totally forgot to let anyone know, sorry about that. I went on a road trip to Rotorua with a stop off in Lake Taupo, both located in the North Island of New Zealand.

The weather was stinking hot and Rotorua was just stinking, I had passed through Rota Vegas before but I never noticed the smell, good reason for it smelling though "geothermal activity", it was pretty surprising to see steam rising from the ground in the middle of the main street, pools of hot bubbling mud on the front lawns of the houses we passed and the ever wafting smell of rotting eggs.

It felt as if we were in the middle of some ancient land, the threat of dinosaurs and erupting volcanoes was always on the imagination, though the city is pretty large and very touristy.

I'll let the pictures do most of the talking.

Mt Ruapehu on the why up, first time I've actually seen it, it's usually covered in clouds when I pass by.

What looks suspiciously like a nuclear silo, New Zealand is nuke free so I wonder what it is, it was big that's for sure.

Rotorua Bath House which is now the Rotorua Museum is a beautiful place.

Here's a few photos of the hot pools and mud pools located around Rotorua.






We were driving along and noticed some hunters had been lucky that day.

Mt Ruapehu on the way home.

Notice the creepy face?

It was a great trip, totally refreshed me, though coming home the same old problems are around, I think it's time for a proper change.

A refreshing non paranormal weekend

Had myself a great weekend under the sun by the local rivers and beaches, well Sunday was sunny, Saturday was a little overcast, still hot though. I think it was just what I needed, two days off in a row to call my own.

Got a few photos of my weekend, hope y'all like.

Can anyone shed anymore light on these ghostly photos

I was kindly sent the following photos from Sharon who has been having problems with here bedside lamp, as in it turns itself on at night, she thought it faulty so replaced it with another, same thing happened so yet again she got a replacement, three lamps and it still turns itself on, Sharon even employed the services of an electrician to check things out, but nothing seemed wrong.

So one night Sharon decided to take some photos, the light turned on, she sat up, turned it off and quickly took some snaps, she says that the room was pitch black while taking the photos, but the results certainly show something.

Sharon also mentioned that other strange things have happened at her home, such as items going missing, all of them hers.

Sharon used an Olympus Fe-210 digital camera to take the photos, the exif data indicates the exposure times were around the 4 second mark.

I checked over the photos but I'm not the best at analyzing this kind of thing, what I found interesting was that what ever it was, it's being either illuminated from beneath or casting light down, also in the first photo there seems to be two directions of movement which seems a little odd for it to be caused by motion blur.

I was wondering if anyone else could shed any more light about what may have caused these, so if anyone could provide an answer or more information for Sharon that would be awesome.

Sharon's Photos kindly used with her permission.

I did get some Lunar Eclipse Photos

The weather cleared up a little and I managed to get some photos of the Lunar Eclipse before the clouds rolled in. I spent a good half an hour watching as the white light of the moon disappeared and a deep red took over. Took loads of photos and some video, the videos are kind of stank, can't use digital zoom in video mode.

Just popped over to Bob's Blog and he's been busy getting some images of the eclipse as well, beautiful shots.

Anyway here's some photos of the eclipse.







The colors may differ from photo to photo, I was using different exposure times to try and get the best results possible, I also used digital zoom along with optical, maybe be a little grainy.

The Day I Saw a UFO

I Wrote about this awhile back, it was actually one of my first posts to MPL, I've always meant to make something graphical to show what we saw with out explaining to much.

I still have doubts, it could be a weather balloon, but it really doesn't make sense. We watched the two objects for quite awhile, the white ball seemed solid and perfectly round and the metallic square was flat, seemed the size of a car hood maybe bigger and was spinning in all directions, they looked to be at the same height and seemed a good distance away from each other.

The picture shows pretty much what we saw, we couldn't see anything attaching the two objects, the picture also shows how large these objects were, we could clearly see them and apart from the features I mentioned above there was nothing else of detail.

Could it just be a weather balloon?

Here's the full photo, it's the view from my house.

Pareidolia Photos PH Creative

I originally took these photos for my other blog Strange Clips, but that blog is on hold for awhile, so I thought I'd be a good citizen and recycle.

Basically Pareidolia is seeing recognizable images in random things, these are from various places around my house, mostly the toilet floor, good vinyl there, I did another set before these ones which some may have seen.

Shapes in the Clouds

I love looking at the clouds for strange formations, sometimes what I see in them are so vague and I'm sure we all see something different, so I play around with them in photoshop to bring some of the Shapes in the Clouds that I see.

You may have seen the last two before I made posts for WW using them.

Face in a Lamp Post

The Hoff in the Clouds

Peeking over a Cloud

Rhino in the Sky

Skull over a Dark City


I was going to post these to my other blog Strange Clips, as you can tell buy the water marks, but I've decided to make them a WW for this blog. These are what I have made so far and I hope to make many more, as soon as I get some new cloud pictures that is.