Ever since the dawn of photography, people have been capturing various 'anomalies' on film - either by photographing something they could also see with the naked eye, or often by complete accident. Photographs of Ghosts were perhaps one of the first anomalies to be captured on film emulsion (and arguably earlier, depending on your interpretation of the Turin Shroud). Sometimes the anomalies have more deliberate explanations - do the Cottingley Faery photographs that so intrigued Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fall into this category, or were they genuine? Even now we do not know for certain. Photographs of anomalies really came to the fore in the 1950s onwards, as more people had access to smaller, cheaper and more reliable cameras, to say nothing of the ease of more modern film emulsions. Curiously of course, this period also saw the explosion in UFO and Flying Saucer sightings - and UFO photographs undoubtedly outnumber those of other anomalies (I am of course ignoring Crop Circle photographs here - as they may show the result of an anomaly, not necessarily the anomaly itself!). During this same period more people started to have access to cine-cameras (which seem cumbersome by today's standards), and anomalies started to be captured in motion - again sometimes by accident, at other times deliberately filming an observable phenomena. The boom in anomaly photographs shows no sign of downturn. Indeed, given the advances and rapidly increasing ownership of digital cameras and camcorders, the scope is there for ever more photographs to be taken. I say this from experience - at one point during research into photographic anomalies, I was using four 35mm cameras at once. I really don't want to consider just how much that cost me in terms of film and processing for 36 exposure films. Yet now I can use a digital camera and take hundreds of photos a day, then simply archive them to CD to other digital medium - the more difficult task now is to review all these photos at leisure! Follow the links below to see examples of Anomalies 'Captured on Camera'
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