Orb photography

Orbs Above Politics

Most people had already voted, but the polls were still open this evening in Bisbee, Arizona. Orbs waited in expectation.

Although staying above politics, the orbs lit up for the cheers of the crowd at the Bisbee Royale on election night 2012.

The race was close and no one was quite sure how it would turn out.

Orbs kept their opinions to themselves.

However, for the first time in my hundreds of photos of orbs, I found a golden orb.

Suddenly we had a projected win and the crowd was on its feet.

The orbs grew large with radiant excitement.

Babes in arms filled the dance floor.

The small town of Bisbee became one with the mass of political supporters throughout the United States.

President Barack Obama wins the re-election and even an orb gave a squiggle of delight.

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/

Orbs Glide Room Waiting

What happens when there is no band to excite the orbs? Just like us they continue to exist.

This stage has served many purposes. It was once the focal point for a church congregation.

The inside of the Bisbee Royale building was completely remodeled in 2011-12, but years of good vibes remain.

Long after the church sold the building it was the place for Bisbee to create theater.

You have probably been wondering about all those orbs. Are they just a result of theater lighting? This is what the stage looks like when my flash doesn’t go off. The colors are richer, the image isn’t as grainy and low contrast. If I wasn’t questing for orbs, I certainly wouldn’t be taking flash photographs.

Here is the same angle with flash. As I’ve mentioned before, Dr. Miceal Ledwith, co-author of The Orb Project, thinks that the orbs are revealed by a florescence by which the flash excites something in the orbs which makes them flash back at the camera. Brilliant sunlight can sometimes have the same effect.

But it’s night-time, and I was taking way too many flash photographs of the Andy T Band featuring Nick Nixon. Just couldn’t help myself. So, I stepped outside to break the grip of attraction and see if any orbs were on the loose in town.

I’ve shown a picture of the Bisbee Royale’s box office before, can’t remember if it was painted the last time I photographed the building. The white globe on the side really is a light bulb. However, that isn’t the moon or a star or a street lamp high up on the left.

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/

Orbs Gather for Andy T Band featuring Nick Nixon

I wandered into the sound check of the Andy T Band of Nashville, Tennessee this evening while questing for orbs.

Markey, the female backup singer, is already an orb enthusiast.

Friends and family of the band amused themselves playing “catch the orb” while we waited for the show to start.

Sound check had the orbs interested, but when Nick Nixon, formerly of the New Imperials, took center stage, the orbs turned up their wattage.

The band has been crisscrossing Arizona for a few weeks and are homeward bound for a day in Nashville.

They obviously enjoy working together. And their music brought out the best in orbs.

I must admit that every time I got an extra-large luminous orb in my camera I showed it off to friends in the audience. Can’t help but share the joy of orbs with each and everyone!

I gave up my rule about only one flash per song. There are too many choice moments to see how the orbs are reacting to the music.

Nick Nixon trained to sing opera when he left high school, which he had to unlearn when he took up rhythm and blues. But, man, he can really light up an orb when he lets loose with his full-bodied vocals.

To learn more about this Chicago, Texas, New Orleans, Blues, and R&B band whose hometown is in Nashville, Tennessee you can find them on Facebook listed under Andy T – Nick Nixon Band. The Andy T Band also has a website:http://www.andytband.com/Music.htm  This will direct you to their Facebook page where you’ll get to hear some soul-stirring, wish you were there, music.

Thanks to the Andy T Band: Andy T – guitar, Nick Nixon – vocals and guitar, Larry Van Loon – keys, Bill Blois – bass, Jim Klinger – drums, Markey – backup vocals.

And, thanks to Shawnee Hicks, sound engineer for the Bisbee Royale.

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/

Orbs of Stonehenge

Inspired by http://sethsnap.com/ who is doing a series of his England photos in his WordPress blog, I went looking through my files of photographs from my visit in 2009. I wasn’t on a quest for orbs back then, but my husband, Bruce MacMasters, caught some in his digital camera, so he is my guest orbist for this posting.

Our cameras were quite primitive in digital terms, but I’ve liked this photo so much I’ve done oil paintings of it and I always emphasize the large pale orb on the left in my paintings, making it an otherworldly mystery.

This was a Summer Solstice gathering of over 33,000 people, the largest that had ever come to Stonehenge at one time. I was expecting an “Om, I love you stone” kind of meditative reverie. Instead we arrived at the largest punk rock mosh pit that side of the Atlantic. Our many layers of clothing barely kept the cold at bay and the post midnight hours became an endurance contest to survive the chill of Salisbury Plain.

In this next photograph you can barely see the orbs after I’ve brightened the image and lowered the contrast:

On this darkest of nights, it was a challenge not to step or fall on the thousands huddled close to the Stones and sleeping in lapping waves around the circle.

Now of course I want to return for the next Solstice (is December too soon and cold?) to record the orbs who fly above the Stones.

To give you an idea how tightly we packed into the center of the circle:

The dawn that Solstice morning did not bring a flash of Sun into our patiently waiting mass.

We were all just happy to have been part of an immensity of mankind meets Stones experience and survived to tell the tale.

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/

Outside with Orbs

I’m still in the orb of All Hallows when time seems to have come to a standstill. The bands are playing and I’m sure they’re sending clouds of orbs soaring across the dance floor, but not for me this night.

Tonight I’m just stepping outside to check the weather and see who’s in the neighborhood. The moon hasn’t risen yet and the stars are higher than the orbs who grace my photos.

As usual, the orbs find the gate to be a place of interest. Perhaps because it is a passageway. Perhaps because they know I’ll look for them there and they don’t want to disappoint.

What I do know is that my fascination with being able to see beyond our limited visible spectrum with the simple use of flash continues unabated. Even though I wasn’t up for a raucous night of hard-driving music, I grabbed my camera eagerly to see who would come into view this evening.

Let’s take a closer look:

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/

Not Halloween Orbs

There’s something about a full moon on Halloween that makes me stay home. Even though there’s a hot and exciting band playing a short stride downhill from my house.

So, I looked in my files for another costumed night at the Bisbee Royale and found these men dressed in red and looking for their own hot night on the town.

I hope you all stayed safe and are recovering from the storm.

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/

Daylight Orbs

In this post I’m going to be showing several shots of this scene, just because the light orbs are so beautiful.

I posted a similar picture taken with my iPhone 4s camera in last week’s silhouette photo challenge.

These and most of the photographs in my blog posts are taken with a Canon G12.

Whether or not these are orbs of the same kind as we have seen in the night flash photos, or simply sun reflections, or a combination of both, they certainly brighten up a photograph.

Dr. Miceal Ledwith, co-author of the Orb Project, thinks that the hexagonal shaped orbs are a result of their light reflecting back at the camera lens just as the shutter is closing, thus the hexagonal aperture shape.

Looks like the orbs are approvingly interested in the renovation work.

I’ve inserted a larger image so that you can see the fainter orb on the upper left and the smaller orb on the right.

Daylight orbs? Scientists Dr. Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D. think it possible.

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/

Incendio Incites Orbs at Bisbee Royale

The orbs were with Incendio playing at Arizona’s Bisbee Royale on Friday, October 26, 2012

Artists and musicians in the attentive crowd were mesmerized by the latin-guitar-world fusion groove that Incendio lay down with haunting passion.

It was a night of enthusiastic response to intricate rhythms and guitar riffs.

Bisbee belly dancers joined the band for the second half of the show.

The orbs gave full approval of the band and dance combo.

Once again the Bisbee Royale lit up the universe with an otherworldly fusion of music and orbs.

Thanks to Jean-Pierre Durand, Liza Carbe, Jim Stubblefield, and Nicole Falzone of Incendio.

Sloane Bouchever, proprietor and general manager of Bisbee Royale.

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/

Bisbee Mine Tour Orbs

We have a guest orbist for this post, Mark Apel, who took these photos a couple of years ago and has been scratching his head ever since about what exactly he caught on film. (Okay, I made up “orbist” but it sounds good.  And, in the digital age it’s a darn shame we don’t catch anything on film anymore because that’s a handy phrase.)

Mark was at the Bisbee Royale recently when I was photographing the bands and I stopped by his table to show the orbs that were showing up in my images. The light went off in his head as he recalled the photos he’d taken during a Bisbee mine tour and no one knew what all those circles in the air were. When he sent me the images I was delighted to see the characteristic details and textures that I’ve come to associate with the orbs I find.

Looks like I’m going to have to put on a jacket and take the mine tour again, this place is rockin’ with orbs! For those who would also like to make the trip here is a link with all the details for a very informative tour into one of the most famous mines in the west: The Copper Queen Mine. http://www.queenminetour.com/

Thanks to Mark Apel for sharing a stunning gathering of orbs.

If anyone else has orbs they would like me to post on my blog, let me know. The orbs love an audience!

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/

Back to Nature Orbs

I’ve been walking outside the last two nights in a quiet quest for orbs. I find myself mentally requesting them to appear, because I know they’re there, but will they reveal themselves?

There is a sense of drifting by, no place in particular to go.

I point my camera into the dark hoping for a revelation.

The orbs are so faint that I only know one has been caught on a branch when I return home to the computer.

And so I must trust that the orbs are there even when unseen at the time of flash.

Then it’s party time and all the orbs I was looking for have gathered at one tree like a flock of birds whooping it up, laughing that they knew where they were all the time.

For those of you who are new to this blog or would like to revisit the explanation as to what orbs are, this might be of help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/closeup-on-orbs/