Two bits of business

[vaneramos]

1. Since no one has come up with a correct explanation yet, I'm issuing an official challenge. A photo I posted Saturday depicts a city street at dusk with traffic lights and so on, but also a couple of unexplained phenomena: strange lights in the sky, and pale mist coiling through most of the frame. Is it a ghost? UFOs? I admit that mist made the hair stand up on my neck for a moment until I realize what I had photographed. But there is a natural explanation. Can anyone guess? Hint: the lights and mist are two separate, unrelated phenomena. I'll dedicate a photo to the first person to offer the correct answer or the closest guess.

2. I have a number of knitters on my friends list, so I'm posting a link Danny djjo's journal entry with photos of the three bears he knitted and felted as Christmas gifts for me, Marian and Brenna.

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Two things come to mind.

One the white specks in the photo may be water dropplets on the lense.

The swirls of mist, or so it looked anyway may be bits of condensation on the lens, or the CCD, the pickup chip in the camera itself from the camera adjusting from a warm spot, such as the car to the cold night.

HTH.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

When I first saw the image on the viewer screen, I thought it might have been caused by something like that, but then I noticed where the fog was actually coming from...

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Ah ok, I think it's perhaps some kind of light smoke from a heating system or chimney.

[chrisglass.livejournal.com]

I'll assume it was fog on the lens, but I must say that I really dig the photo.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It was not on the lens. Thanks!

[stephe.livejournal.com]

Wild guesses: snowflakes on the lens for the lights, your own breath for the fog.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are right, or at least very close. I'll explain in another post. Any particularly theme or subject you would like for your photograph?

[stephe.livejournal.com]

Nope: I leave that up to your good judgement.

[laura-borealis.livejournal.com]

Was it shot through a window, and the smoke/mist was in the room behind you?

The lights look like they were reflected, if they are not UFOs. :)

[laura-borealis.livejournal.com]

Wait, now I see that someone already guessed correctly! :p

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

They sure look weird, don't they? I have caught rain and hail in my camera's flash this way before, so I knew what it was right away, but the fog from my breath was a new thing. It added a weird smeary quality that made those lights look like they were reflected in something. Anyway, thanks for commenting. :-)