Is this a picture of a seafront ghost??

• Guest 640

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  15 January 2014     07:59257801
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  Two nights ago i was up in the early hours and figured the time was right to try and get a picture of the new seafront lights to put on the Sea News pages. So i did and put the picture up yesterday without any further ado. But then later in the day I noticed something odd on the right hand side of that picture. The original picture is here at..
  
  http://www.doverforum.com/sea-news/
  
  But take a look.There appears to be a figure on the bottom righthandside of the picture, but in reality there was nobody about anywhere, the streets were completely deserted. The camera was set to maximum sensitivity so it wasnt a long exposure either so nothing blurred. I took several pictures of the same scene and there is definitely nobody at all walking along. But take a look at this..see bottom of picture towards the right..
  

  

  
  Ive tried to enlarge the enlargement without much success but here it is anyway..
  

  

  
  
  Make of it what you will...??
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• Guest 718

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  15 January 2014     10:35257814
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  No Paul ....... it's lens flare.
• Guest 640

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  15 January 2014     10:50257815
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  I thought about that possibility already John but it doesnt look like lens flare. Ive had all kinds of lens flare photographing sunrises and sunsets over the years etc...but it didnt look quite like that..this time its too uneven or something..
  but who knows for sure....mysterious indeed ??
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• Guest 767

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  15 January 2014     12:18257818
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  Hello Paul,
  Firstly I think it is a type of flare, but may I ask what type of camera you use - DSLR or compact, Do you use a lens hood and was the memory card clean or is it well used? Also was the shot taken through glass? Hope you don't mind my asking, but as a fellow snapper I would like to know too!
  Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk
• howard mcsweeney1

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  15 January 2014     12:18257820
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  you've gone viral now paul, i think that's the term.
  
  
  http://www.dover-express.co.uk/PICTURES-Man-spots-8216-ghost-8217-Dover-seafront/story-20445183-detail/story.html
• Guest 640

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  15 January 2014     15:06257826
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  OMG re viral...lol!!
  
  Yes can give you the details you ask for there Phil. But first the reason i dont think its flare...if you look at the full picture on the Sea News
  http://www.doverforum.com/sea-news/
  you can see it represent just a tiny bit of the whole pic..(the pics above are enlargements) and it just doesnt look like the flare we see year in year out ..in that main pic particularly. Loads of other lights on view, none producing 'flare'. The camera was a Nikon P7100 compact relatively new and it was not taken through glass. It was taken with no glass no window in front of it. The card is an SD card again fairly new.
  
  there you have it. As Phil from the Express says...I didnt notice this to begin with..just photographed the seafront lights for the Sea News page, twas only later I wondered what it was.
  
  Must return now to my accountant..the deadline looms..
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• Guest 715

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  15 January 2014     16:06257828
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  Definitely a ghost, there has to be money to be made from visiting The Haunted Seafront lots of publicity for the town
  Audere est facere.
• Guest 977

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  15 January 2014     16:31257829
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  It's most likely a reflection off the shiny bits of the camper van on to the footpath.
  
  And asking with my notorious eye for nit-picking detail, aren't they two different images? The lower one definitely has camera shake that the upper one doesn't (look at the front number plate or the shiny bits on the roof, they have a vertical smear).
• Guest 657

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  15 January 2014     20:31257853
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  I also thought they looked like two different images above.
  
  Almost looks like a ghost wearing a high vis jacket!
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• Guest 640

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  16 January 2014     08:43257863
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  Just made a change to post 6...it was actually taken on a Nikon P7100 Phil..
  I had earlier put Nikon P7000
  
  Its a Sou'wester Jeane..you know those yellow oilskin outfits fishermen used to wear while out in the fierce Atlantic.
  Yes I took three to four pictures...was just focussing on the new lantern lights on the left hand side of the road as we look. I spotted the Spectre later...
  
  Yes indeed Martin...trade picks up marvellously at the mere mention of a ghost
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• Guest 657

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  16 January 2014     09:38257869
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  Yes a sou'wester, couldn't think of the name of it.
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• Guest 671

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  16 January 2014     10:00257874
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  The triangular shape at the top, is a parking clamp and the figure is the nasty man who put it on there, waiting in disguise, to collect his ill gotten gains.
  
  Horrible Man.
  "My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
• Guest 716

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  16 January 2014     10:17257875
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  Boss good to have you on the Forum again you are sadly missed.
  
  Several friends who have stayed with us have told us of a ghost appearing during their stay and have individually
  
  described in her in accurate detail.
  
  When discussed at dinner parties with friends in our village and surrounding villages they have said there
  
  was a lady in the village many years ago dressed as described,Spanish dress with high ruffled collar that
  
  had an affair with the Village Blacksmith and the local Farmer had lots more to say on the subject.
  
  When we finally sent an invitation to the farmer we were informed he had .died.
  
  The stories still continue to this day.Our home borders on the Pilgrims way and then St Andrews Church grave yard.
  
  Your very welcome to spend a few nights with your camera.
• Guest 640

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  17 January 2014     07:44257950
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  Thanks Reg
  
  Yes I bet there are a few ghostly spooky places out your way. But ahh no..them ghosts are best left undisturbed. Back in the old country there were a few sinister places I can tell you. There was one lonely road where late at night you had to make it past the graveyard on the way back from the pub ...and you could hear the banshees a-wailin' and a-cryin'...and the yew trees creaking and swaying even when there was no wind.
  No wonder me hair turned white at the premature age of 64
  
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• Guest 653

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  17 January 2014     16:49258009
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  At least you've still some Paul.
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 756

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  17 January 2014     19:55258050
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  I'm more afraid of the living...
• Guest 705

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  17 January 2014     22:01258060
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  VIROL-yes I used to have it by the spoonful in the Fifties.
  Never give up...
• howard mcsweeney1

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  17 January 2014     22:32258069
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  welcome back richard good to see you posting, on the minus side it means i will have to give back all the whipround money.