Photography

Orbs, Bisbee Royale, performances, nature orbs

Guest Orbs at a Wedding

This evening we have a guest orb photographer, Greg Neish, who is sharing the photographs he took at a friend’s wedding in September 2012.

The wedding was held at the Tree’s of Mystery Wedding Tree. If you look closely you can see a cascade of orbs rising above the minister in the center of the trees.

Greg says that it was a foggy and overcast day, until minutes before the ceremony – sun came out, fog rolled in shortly after the wedding.

The orb hovers as breathlessly as the groom waiting for his bride.

Looks like a match made in heaven.

We’ve all heard of the radiant bride, but these orbs will take our understanding of that to another level.

Thank you very much Greg Neish for sharing such heavenly orbs.

Later this week we will see some more of Greg’s orb photography.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memories as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Tonight’s Orbs

This evening I stepped outside to three of my favorite orb locations. Those of you familiar with this blog will recognize them immediately.

I took several pictures of this gate, and it just fascinates me to see how the orbs shift and line up in the night.

Keep in mind that the images are deliberately grainy because the brighter the image and lesser the contrast the more orbs are revealed.

Favorite rooftop, this time with Bisbee’s Christmas tree lit up on the opposite mountain.

There are just seconds between these two photos, which may indicate that the orbs move very quickly.

Orbs and I have something in common, we both like agave stalks.

Again, mere seconds between photos.

And so, presented for you tonight are the latest orbs of Bisbee, Arizona.

Tomorrow evening we have a special treat, a guest orb photographer, Greg Neish. If you think orbs like agave, wait until you see how they respond to a wedding.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memories as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Orbs and Tree Aura of a Guest

In today’s post Kathy Phelps is our guest orb photographer. Some of you may know her from her WordPress blog:

Nature Snippets: http://naturesnippets.com/

On her Lazy Hike post she included one of the next two photos which show orbs in a little “cave”:

The orbs change positions slightly and in the next photo you can see that the spider web is in front of the orb:

Kathy says that she could see the orbs while she was taking the pictures. This experience happened towards the end of her hike. The sun was behind her and couldn’t have caused the orbs.

The picture below was taken the next day in Kathy’s backyard. She was taking pictures of a persimmon tree and after a few photos started seeing the energy in part of the tree.  Kathy says that she could also easily see it when not looking through the camera. She noticed the color to the energy and thought it was “the spirit of the tree, or the tree’s energy…if there is a difference”

Kathy particularly likes the small branch on the right with the energy shape compared to the branch.

It is fascinating how the electromagnetic field of the tree is captured by the digital camera so that those of us who weren’t on the scene can appreciate seeing the forces of nature.

Thank you to Kathy Phelps for sharing with us her first photos of orbs and auras. Every photographed encounter with nature enriches our perceptions of the world around us.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memories as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

And, if anyone would like to be my guest and show their orb photographs on the Orbs Delight blog, please let me know.

Orbs Await Hot Air Balloonists

In yesterday’s post we saw a tree photographed by Therese Beavers that had an eagle’s nest. Those orbs may have been protective of the nest.

The tree in the above and below photos is a very different tree.

This tree is a party tree. People come from miles around and across the ocean to gather here in the dark to share food and tell stories. It took me two and a half hours to reach the tree this morning.

When you’re in one of the first two cars of people to arrive, you wonder, will anyone else show up?

Yes! It’s a party after all, the hot air balloonists have arrived, including those who live on the other side of the Atlantic.

The crew who won’t be staying for the party get to work immediately setting up their balloon.

Ballooning is really about fellowship and there is work of a different kind to be done. We certainly do seem to have the orbs attention.

First, while we determine which way the wind is blowing and if it’s a good day for flying, we establish a home base.

Then we can focus on actually putting a balloon up into the sky.

One of my favorite photographic moments in hot air ballooning.

An orb of a different color ascends into the sky.

Thanks to Dan, Lorrie, and Julia Ewer of Foolish Pleasure Hot Air Balloon Rides for organizing our holiday balloon rally in Marana, Arizona.

We had an orbs delightful time!

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memories as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Orbs of a Guest

Therese Beavers is my guest orb photographer for this post. This is what she first wrote when she contacted me about her photograph on November 19th:

“I have been outside the past two evenings getting all sorts of orb pictures. I drove to an eagle’s nest and got an amazing result. With no lights anywhere (except my flash) I got 3 large orbs and a flash of light in the center of the tree. An eagle was sitting above the nest!”

Curious about the flash of light, I checked where the moon might have been when Therese took her picture. The new moon was on the 13th, which means it was a very dark night.

Therese continues with her description of that night: “The eagle nest is about 15-20 miles from me to the southeast. It is located in a tree in a field about 60′ from the road. Farmland surrounds it. I stood outside of my jeep in the road while I took the picture. I didn’t notice the eagle above the nest until I drove back past the nest going the opposite direction. I was so excited.”

Amazing that her flash could pick up anything at all at the distance she was standing from the tree.

Thank you to Therese Beavers for sharing her photo of the eagle’s nest tree with its orbs and that remarkable flash of light. Most interesting!

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memories as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

The Orbs of Community Thanksgiving

Each year at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Bisbee, Arizona we have a community Thanksgiving dinner. People beyond the church congregation contribute turkeys, hams, and all the goodies that fill our plates and warm our bodies.

This year all the kitchen volunteers were new to the job except the carvers, who are so experienced they bring their own knives and hones.

This pie looked absolutely scrumptious.

Everyone loves a good meal and it was a lovely day to line up outside in anticipation.

 We all gave thanks for the many people and wonders in our lives.

More gravy please.

I’ve been photographing this scene for several years and always enjoy the sight of people sharing a meal together.

Thanksgiving is often one of the most beautiful days to bask in the sunlight in Bisbee.

Coming inside from the brightness outdoors fooled my camera into taking a flash photo, thus revealing the orbs that can been seen against the black background of the stage.

At the end of a good meal, time for good conversation.

It all starts and ends with sharing joy in the kitchen.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Good Night for Orbs

My quest for orbs this evening took me beyond the confines of my yard and into the yards of my neighbors.

Following the suggestion of my viewer Marcela, who discovered that if she said the word “orbs” she got little response, if she said the word “light” she got a few more, and if she said the word “Beings” she got several on her video, in my mind this evening I was looking for Beings.

I found many more Beings this evening than I found orbs last night.

In fact, while I was focussing on this hillside in total darkness (try that out!), I could see an orb Being moving across my view screen as if I was taking video.

I’ve come to accept grainy images, because 1) they reveal more orbs (Beings), and 2) it’s actually the way I see the air around me.

Once again, my favorite tear drops make an appearance.

Like a starry night the Beings are among us.

They seem to flock together and then moments later vanish.

These agaves are always a good place to look for orb Beings.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memories as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Elusive Orbs

This evening I stayed at home and simply went questing for orbs within my yard. I couldn’t see any on my view screen while I was photographing, so I was a little discouraged. It wasn’t until I loaded them onto the computer that I saw there was actually a cloud of them coming at me like a snow storm.

This is the very next picture, not quite a cloud anymore, but then there isn’t as much sky either.

You can see why I thought the orbs were eluding me, try to find this one. Hint: it’s a tear drop shape.

I could see that I probably had an orb in the trees on the middle right, but could not discern the ones in the sky at the time of the photo.

These I couldn’t see at all until I was at the computer.

I’m rather fond of the tear drop orbs.

This is not the moon beneath the leaves.

The bright center light is the moon, which is still less than a quarter full. So, this post is actually for those of you hunting orbs in the dark. Don’t be discouraged if you can’t perceive them immediately. They may not be revealed until you brighten the image and lessen the contrast, then the paler ones can be seen.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memories as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Poetry and the Orbs

A few posts ago I introduced to you the Tucson poet, Logan Dirtyverbs Phillips and Palabra Andante, the Poetry Open Mic at the Bisbee Royale. Here are a few more of the poets from that evening. Next time I’m going to copy the names off the list that Logan is holding up to the audience.

I know Matt as a stoneworker who builds a lot of the walls that hold up our hillsides in Bisbee.

Didn’t realize he was a very outspoken poet as well as stone and orb mover.

Jahfre admittedly loves a microphone and he got a squiggle of an orb attentively listening.

Chris brought humor into the evening.

Once again, Jeri held the audience’s attention and an orb shined brightly on the upper right.

Sarah is part of the Bisbee Royale team who organized the evening of poetry and spoke of realizing herself as she came of age in Bisbee. The orbs circled around in support.

Thank you to the Bisbee Royale for another eclectic evening.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memories as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Photographing Orbs

This is going to be my link for future posts so that the people new to this blog, and those of you who want to refresh your memory, can see what scientists Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D., and Dr. Miceal Ledwith (a theologian with a scientific interest), who co-authored the book, The Orb Project, say about orbs.

Dr. Heinemann, who received his Ph.D. in experimental physics and worked as a materials science researcher at NASA and UCLA, and as a research professor at Stanford University, thinks that orbs are the “emanations of spiritual beings” and he also says that to call them orbs is disrespectful, like calling royalty by their first names. Never mind the titles of his two books, The Orb Project, and Orbs, Their Mission and Messages of Hope (co-written with his wife Gundi Heinemann). His theory that they are emanations is likened to our seeing car lights in the dark, but the lights are not the driver.

In his books Dr. Heinemann presents data that dismisses sceptical views that orbs are simply dust particles or water molecules. He also shows a photo of an orb taken in a “clean room” a lab that is dust free. There is an interesting photo of faked orbs that is very similar to photos I’ve seen on the web where someone sprayed water into the air and called the round drops “orbs”. They make for very pretty pictures, but are too uniform compared to the clouds of orbs you can find just outside your door without all the bother of faking them. Below is a cluster of orbs that I found hovering over a bush this summer, you can see that some are round, some are colored, some are teardrop:

Dr. Miceal Ledwith has a theory that the light we see coming from orbs is due to the camera’s flash stimulating something inside the orb that makes it fluoresce back to the camera. Brilliant sunlight can sometimes have the same effect so that occasionally you’ll get orbs in your non-flash daylight photos.

Dr. Ledwith also speculated that the occasional hexagonal shape is caused by the orb’s fluorescence reaching the camera just as the shutter is beginning to close.

I have noticed that orbs respond to strong stimuli such as a singer who can really belt out a song. They also manifest around performers who are playing with great passion and enthusiasm.

Above is the Andy T Band featuring Nick Nixon who used to be an opera singer.

I encourage everyone to go on a quest for orbs. As Dr. Miceal Ledwith says, you don’t have to suffer the discomfort of looking for them on a cold night in a graveyard, they aren’t ghosts. You can just step outside and start taking flash photographs. If you live in a densely populated city like New York, you might want to go to a park, but you could also very well find them soaring over the streets like I do in downtown Bisbee, Arizona.

Flash photography extends our narrow visual range so that we can now perceive orbs, who were always there, we just needed finer tuned instrumentation to see them.

Thank you to Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D., who took the time to look at this blog, enjoyed the photos and encouraged me to continue my quest for orbs.