Weird Cousin» Bizarre http://www.weirdcousin.com Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:02:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Create Your Own Guardian Angel http://www.weirdcousin.com/create-your-own-guardian-angel/ http://www.weirdcousin.com/create-your-own-guardian-angel/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:55:41 +0000 admin http://www.weirdcousin.com/?p=760 Read More]]>
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Looking for a craft or project? Why not create your own Guardian Angel?

A quick Google search will turn up hundreds of sites claiming that orbs appearing in photos are ghosts/dead relatives/fairies/guardian spirits — depending on the worldview of the storyteller. It seems that over the last few decades these orbs have miraculously started appearing in photographs. Logically, if an orb appears in a photo, it must be a ghost. Right?

Actually, it is a matter of optics, not super-naturalism. The orbs started appearing simultaneously with the growth in digital photography. When a digital camera using a flash takes a photo and there is some kind of side lighting the camera interprets the feedback from air-born dust and pollen in his way. To make your own orb photo, use a digital camera with flash in a slightly darkened room and wave a duster around before taking the photo… ta da, guardian angels.

I certainly believe in the supernatural, and thank God for any and all guardian angels that might be looking out for me. But to believe that orbs in pictures are guardian angels or ghosts makes as much sense as believing that red-eyes for a person in a photo means that they are demon possessed.

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