Calm Photos

Time for a just a bit more Halloween photo fun . . .

In early August of 1999, myself, Kristie and then three-month-old Emma took a trip from our home in Salt Lake City all the way to Ireland. We stayed a couple of days at an old mansion/estate that had been renovated into a hotel, called Mount Juliet, which is near Thomastown, Ireland.

Back then I was still using film, specifically Fuji Velvia, along with a Canon Elan IIe camera. One morning I decided to walk the grounds and capture some of the local landscape and gardens. The photo posted here of the garden “portal” is one of my favorites.

If you look through the circle you will notice a set of structures in the background. One of these is an old greenhouse. It was severely overgrown with plants, many growing out of the broken windows. I thought it made for an interesting subject, so I got a bit closer and took a few shots. No big deal. Nothing struck me as odd when I took the photograph.

When we returned to Utah and I had my rolls of Velvia processed, I noticed this slight, foggy-looking “apparition” toward the top left part of the image. I thought to myself perhaps it was the result of the processing or the film going through the x-ray at the airport ? But all the other transparencies from that same roll were perfectly fine. Maybe it’s a reflection in the glass ? Well, the problem with that argument is that if you look close enough, you will notice that the “fog” spreads over parts of the image where there is broken glass as well as parts where there is no glass.

So, what could it be ? Or, should I ask who could it have been ? What do you see ?
Happy Halloween !