What an eerie snapshot I took the night before last – and it fits the topic of week 29 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
Snapshot
…i.e. without arrangement…
Isn’t it uncanny how that ghost glides horizontally through the room in the house across the street?
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Alright, it’s not a ghost (duh!), just a long-time exposure (25 seconds) with reflections of street lights and shop windows in a (dark) window while a car was passing by…
Here’s the full image with the window next to it:
At first, I only showed the first image and a little quiz “what do you think is special about this image?” Well, it’s a night photo as can be seen on the second image in original brightness, which has been slightly modified in brightness and contrast (with Corel PhotoPaint’s automatic function):
(click for large versions)
From the right, the moon is glaring into the photo, the elongated dots in the sky are stars which actually moved that far within the 20 seconds of exposure – and that there are brighter parts on which the moon doesn’t shine directly is also caused by the street lights, of course.
The “disturbances” seen in the bright spire in the following detail and the stripes that can best be seen in the bright image above are caused by the (black) mosquito net through which the photo was taken:
The scaffolding was removed recently from the department store that has been extended and received its new escalator in February, and so it shines in all its splendor – and, well, it somehow looks to me like an elephant with its tusks cut off:
Or what do you see? 
Exactly 100 years ago, on 30 June 1908, there was a tiny explosion1 in the midst of Siberia in the Tunguska region2, felling a couple trees3. So what? Why blame UFOs or black holes for that – tststs… 
Okay, seriously: According to the mostly accepted opinion of scientists, it was an asteroid exploding 5–10 km4 above ground – which explains why there’s no big crater; results of a research group last year indicate that a lake a few miles away from the epicenter may be the result of the impact of a fragment.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
