Best Of 2011 Grand Champion~Orb Photo Contest Winners!
Thank you, everyone, for the hundreds of fantastic images submitted in the orb photo contest.
Our most popular blog of 2011 was of the winning images in our Orb Photo Contest!
Please enjoy these images once again! We’ll be back on Monday, January 9 with new blogs to share.
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We were looking for a photo of happy orbs, preferably with people or plants present, to serve as a cover for Atala’s upcoming book on photographing nature spirits.
The publishers did not find a photo strong enough, in their opinion, to represent the book as its cover. They ultimately chose a photo of a tree spirit.
We have included several of your images in our text, as illustrations of various principles discussed. The text is going through the editing process now, and if any of the images make the final cut, we will be sure to let you know!
Shown below are the winners we selected! Congratulations everyone!
First Place~Honey Metcalf lives in South Oregon and began taking pictures of orbs “after witnessing an unusual phenomenon here on my property in 2005.” On a trip to Mt. Shasta, Honey and her sister Micki took turns taking photographs of each other calling in the faeries to come play with them! Quite a community came on out! Honey tells us she has a collection of several thousand images of orbs.
Second Place – SeaHeart Elan lives on the West Coast and took this happy photograph at the annual Fairy and Human Relations Congress, held each year in Washington state. The young girls and the orbs are clearly having a great time playing with each other! SeaHeart tells us she has thousands of images of orbs!
Third Place – Kristen Putzer, Illinois took this photograph of her young son Joshua on a recent outing to a local preserve. Her son was in a very happy mood, she tells us. He was describing a nature spirit he was playing with, and was greeting it; clearly, the nature spirit was greeting him back. The shape – a round ball with arms or wings extending out – is one of the more unusual orb shapes people capture in camera. This is one of Kristen’s first orb photographs, and she tells us she was quite surprised to see Jason’s “pretend” friend had been caught on camera!
Honorable Mention – Melanie Joyce is caretaker of the very special Bluff Trail Labyrinth in Wisconsin and has taken thousands of orb photos of all shapes, sizes and colors. This photo was selected because it shows an unusual image – a collection of orbs who have gathered together to form an etheric branch! The labyrinth itself is flat: that branched form in the center exists only in the orb dimension!
Honorable Mention – Al Ochsner, Illinois. Al took this photograph at a gathering where many of the attendees were focusing on taking photographs of orbs. He was not having much success, so we suggested he identify with the frequency used by a young girl in the group to get her many orb images. After a minute or so of adjusting his frequency to hers, he began photographing – and produced this amazing image: an entire wall of orbs traveling into his space, to find out what was happening!
Honorable mention – Barbara Kaufmann. This is a photograph Barbara took, she tells us, “At a seminary among iconic sculptures and images.” Very often we’ve seen images of “holy statues” of various faiths who have a lot of orbs around them; the orbs appear to be connected somehow to the process of petitioning and receiving back messages from the statue’s representative energy.
Commendation – Melanie Joyce, Wisconsin. An entire bush of orbs is pouring out towards the photographer!
Commendation - Melanie Joyce, Illinois – A full moon ceremony had just taken place on the Bluff Trail Labyrinth, and the orb beings were moving about very fast. When you consider how long a camera lens is open for such a shot, it’s clear the orbs were zooming about at super speed! Nascar should see such speeds!
Commendation – SeaHeart Elan – A wonderful picture of adults, children and fairies playing together at dusk – the most active time for human/fairy interaction, the time known as the space between the worlds!
Holy cow! Amazing! Every single one of them. Well done winners
My my. But not mine. Positive vibes the major catalyst? What about elementals and other floaty things that aren’t so friendly?
Makes me wonder about “don’t worry be happy”. Fine, simply be happy when that tank is about to squash you. Don’t scare the orbs off for cripes sake!
Seriously tho, I wonder about those tiny points of white light one can see in bright sunlight. They dart hither and tither in front of your face. It seems apparent that it’s some kind of optical illusion but I wonder. If you change angles they diminish…yet they at least seem to have intent behind their darting to and fro. It’s kinda like a broiling aether and you need that bright sunlight to see them.
Well, I apparently have more Birds listening to my weekend jam sessions than people. They hang out, listen and even sing out when I do something really good. Yesterday, I tried a new technique and one particular crow sounded off for sometime…it then started squawking to other crows seemingly as if it was saying, “hey, I just taught a human a new trick!”
But they are truly psychic come to find out, the ones that bother. They constantly tune into my mantra sessions etc. I can tell they are finely tuned as they always give off a very sweet toot when I hit the Zone…
A bit off topic yes.
Hi Marc
You have a good point. It is all about balance. It is just as bad to have endless Hollywood movies showing all extra-terrestrials as evil, all pagans as evil, etc.
At this point, the orbs people are photographing with digital cameras only appear at happy occasions, and they are nature spirits or other life forms that enjoy happy human emotions. Of course there are interdimensional life forms that are not positive, but they currently are not coming forward to have their photos taken, at least in the images our public is sending us. Although there was an amazing image of a devil’s face in the smoke from the 9/11 building collapse…
As to the spots in front of your eyes on a sunny day…you might check if these are internal or external to your own body. The eyes are like camera lenses, and light hitting them can sometimes create spots – that’s why photography is good for this, it is external.
Thanks for your input.
It’s an odd type of optical illusion as it’s only in the bright sun. Still, the manner in which they dance is cause for consideration.
Well, anyone taking pics of orbs from here on in should make Sure that the air and ground cover are Not disturbed in Any way. A few youtubers have made some inroads concerning this (particulate, in many cases) phenomenon.