A Spiritual Walk

[Karl Johnston]

I went out for a walk tonight. I took a trip to Mission Park and noticed a cool outcrop of notilucent clouds filling the skies. I've shot many of these before and had them printed all over, on websites and in print and in newspaper..so sometimes I like to just enjoy displays rather than photograph them.

I felt like someone was watching me, too, though.

I looked around the park and as I looked into the mission's balcony I made out a weird shape...so I lifted up my camera and started snapping away.

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I was stunned at the sight. Two spirits watching me from the balcony!

I called to them and they drifted down from all around...

I saw them whisping across the grass and coming towards me. A couple came down and introduced themselves as spirits visiting and watching the Notilucent cloud display.

They introduced their names as Tyson and Haylor

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They said they had many friends who had gathered from all around to see the display...and i asked them if they were here, too. They called up to the mission balcony, again, and down swooped several more friendly spiritual watchers.

If you look closely in this shot; you can see them coming down the balcony!

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I was a bit startled when this young one snuck up behind me and introduced herself as Cecila

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After a few introductions were passed around of the newcomers, we all chilled on the grass and watched the skies...I'll upload more shots of the notilucent clouds we saw, that night.
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Look forward to more..and if you want to give me a shout on my website for meeting these young ghosties, feel free to post a reply on my blog entry ;)

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[Brypan]

Spooky! Very creative!

[Karl Johnston]

Thanks! I was inspired to try something like this by the work of cole thompson at this link:

http://www.colethompsonphotography.com/TheGhostsOfGreatBritain.htm

Straight out of raw, side from the first one..I gave that a bit of a "spookier" cross processing with curves.

I learned how to shoot a building with an ultra-wide angle so that there was minimal distortion to the image. All I had to do was stop shooting up (and instead; shoot straight on) to exaggerate its size..and I realized just how straight I could make the lines of the building. I remember reading this long ago but never really remember everything i read when I'm out and about actually shooting. Was kind of a "D'uhr" moment when I got back home and compared some of the shots.

[rbakeratl]

Really like the first and third images.
Nice concepts.

[Karl Johnston]

Thanks, I realized I forgot to add the pic of the notilucent clouds

It's up now, 2nd from the bottom.

Cheers for enjoying.