Am I seeing things?

Post by **Pandabean** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:37 pm

I was updating my family tree with some photographs when I came across the one below. It is of Andrew Rutherford, his wife and son (as far as I know).

http://www.talkingscot.com/gallery/disp ... p?pos=-943

Upon looking closer at this it seems like there is also someone else in the photo on the other side of the window. You can see a general outline of the body standing behind what appears to be a vase.

Now is this just my eyes playing tricks on me, is it a ghost or someone actually standing there?

Andy

Post by **emanday** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:40 pm

It certainly looks as though someone was standing inside watching the picture being taken.

Post by **paddyscar** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:13 pm

Hi Andy:

I can see a man with a white beard and fedora hat looking out of the window beside the gentleman, but his head is as large as the entire torso of the man stood next to the boy.

I have a photo like this taken on a very sunny day, in which it looks like the drapes behind my parents are in tatters. When we examined it more closely, it is a reflection of the roofs and chimney tops from across the road reflected in the window behind them. The reflection in the window is more noticeable and lifelike than the drapes.

Frances

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:56 pm

Hi Andy

If you double click the image to enlarge it the impression of a face disappears.
The image quality is sufficiently dense (pixelwise) that enlarging it by a factor of only two or three would not lose that amount of definition.
I reckon there is something in the room rather than someone
Blowing it up furtherwith Irfanview gained no clearer ideas as to what is in the room. Maybe a standard lamp shade or something.

Russell

Post by **Pandabean** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:53 pm

To me it looks like a woman with some kind of apron but the head area looks kind of like an old man.

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:16 am

Hi Andy,

No I think there is a lady there wearing a pinafore type dress or at least an apron with a floral shirt. To me she has her head turned slightly to her right (our left). I have uploaded a close up of the window to the gallery; hopefully someone will add the url here when approved.

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-945

Gallery URL added - AndrewP

davran · Post by **davran** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:35 pm

ninatoo wrote:No I think there is a lady there wearing a pinafore type dress or at least an apron with a floral shirt. To me she has her head turned slightly to her right (our left).

I agree, that's what it looks like to me, too.

Rach · Post by **Rach** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:11 pm

Yes, I agree it looks like someone with a pinny on. It's probably Granny who has been making Sunday lunch and wondering when all the posing is going to be finished.
On the other hand it could be a vase at the window and behind it a chair with one of these antimacassar [spelling?] things that people put on the chairs to prevent oily hair from marking the material.
Prefer the former idea myself.
Rae