What the hell are these?

[Mike]

It is quite common to find anomalies on Google Earth and Google Street, but have a look at these. What could they be? ON the first link - the blobby thing in the air - click and grab the picture and look below the object and slightly to its right at road level. Loads of "orbs". Up in one of the clouds as well.


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The second object is an extraordinary looking thing in the sky, but I wonder if it is a problem with the camera? Double exposure or something.


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Any thoughts on these?

[sammysamm89]

The first one...absolutely no clue. It's very odd.
The second one looks like clouds but it can't be...click full screen. Very strange.

[jillh10]

its not strange its faked...zoom in and look at the line...its been cut as can be detected by the lower and upper pixel mix up  in other words  it dont run smooth and it dont add up its crapola  dont vorry I am here now Mwhahahahaa  xx

[Mike]

But what do you make of the "Orbs", No.10? They might be alien spirits heading back to their Lightship, having just inspected the bridge for structural integrity, prior to using it as a landing pad for their galactic "Star Cruiser".

See, you never know what these little buggers are up to.... 

[jillh10]

Take a very very careful look at the center of the image, then ask yourself a question,
why is there an after image of a lamp post up above the lampost image itself?

To the trained eye this is just someone arsing about. 

[sammysamm89]

I didn't catch that the first time babe but...
Is it all the same lamp post, just broken up by what looks like light clouds or brightness from the daylight in the picture?

[jillh10]

cloned sky around the edges of that cloudy thing

[Salbrox]

Pic 2 is a twig or branch in a double exposure.

[sammysamm89]

OOooOoo...that's a good one Sal. That could definately be it.

[Mike]

OOooOoo...that's a good one Sal. That could definately be it.

Yep, it  d e f i n i t e l y could be that, Sal. Looks like a pine branch, doesn't it? As a matter of interest, how do you get a double exposure on a digital camera?     Often wondered....

[jillh10]

hmmm could do it by uploading to the pc slap it in a photographic program and bobs ur aunty and fannies ur uncle

[Mike]

So it's not a camera fault, as such, but caused by the processing later. Umm, makes sense. Okay, thank you. 

[jillh10]

bow bow bow ur welcome sire

[Salbrox]

How do we know know they use digital imaging for streetview? Might be better for them to have real negatives as hard copy than digital copies. Negatives can be scanned too.

[Mike]

How do we know know they use digital imaging for streetview? Might be better for them to have real negatives as hard copy than digital copies. Negatives can be scanned too.

Good question, but I would have thought that the sheer number of images and the huge task of processing them quickly would dictate that digital techniques were essential.... but I don't know sweet FA about photography.