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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!

Staff Speak~The Joy of the Season

Cosmic Portal – Labyrinths and Other Life Forms

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Installing a labyrinth on your land is a beneficial way to interact with nature. Labyrinths help to cohere, redirect where necessary, and positively organize energy in a land area. Some people work with labyrinths as a way to connect to universal energy and ground it for use on earth.

There are many varieties of labyrinths, the two most popular currently are the classical labyrinth, whose diagram look much like the human brain and in the 7-path form is often used to move through the chakras. There is also the Chartres Labyrinth, which is a more geometrically symmetrical pattern used for reflective contemplation. Labyrinths can be very formal inside a church, informal in your backyard, and drawn on canvas to take to social gatherings.

Installing a labyrinth on your land is relatively easy, and if you have only a small piece of land you can reduce the number of circuits to three. When I moved into my current home, which occupies a corner lot, the nature spirits requested I install a labyrinth. When I went to start, I had a preconceived idea for where to place the mouth, or opening, but the nature spirits wouldn’t permit it, insisting I move it to another less classic position. They also insisted on uneven paths, and a three circuit, surrounding an old locust tree. It turns out the labyrinth helps to slow down the energy as it approaches along the street, and it also draws water from the ground for the use of the tree. Labyrinths are often the location, in the center, of significant energy and frequently are either placed over, or call to them, a water dome from beneath the earth. When you see a country labyrinth, you will often see cows lying down in the center – a sure sign of good energy! And in photos – you’ll often find a plethora of orbs!

If you would like to know more about labyrinths, I highly recommend you check out The Labyrinth Society’s website where they have, among other things, a worldwide labyrinth locator – you can check if there are any public labyrinths near you that you can walk. They also have an interactive guide on how to build your own labyrinth.

A colleague in Wisconsin, Melanie Joyce, has a very special Bluff Trail Labyrinth where she hosts energy workers who want to hold ceremonies of various types, and a free open Sunday walk. Melanie was called upon by spirit to build this labyrinth, placing it on a land site that had previously kept old truck and farm machine parts. She did not even know what a labyrinth was, when she started. The labyrinth became a learning tool for Melanie as well as a gift for others. Soon the life forms of the labyrinth requested she take photographs. She threw away her first camera, thinking it was defective because there were all these round dots on the photos! Now she knows better, and is one of the best orb photographers I have come across! The photos of orbs in this blog are Melanie’s. She has captured orbs of many colors and shapes, including diamond shapes, branched orbs and orbs as they change to plasma/smoke. Check out her website, and visit if you live near there!

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Orbs at Labyrinth, Ottawa ON Canada

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My family and I attended a Labyrinth walk at the local neighbourhood park. We noticed a large number of “Orbs” present in the pictures afterwards. Needless to say, our girls were amazed. Family appears in the centre of the pictures, which were taken by me. We hope you enjoy them! – Rev. Dr. Joseph Dube Ottawa, ON