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The Mabou Mystery
Film: Kodak Kodachrome
Exposure: Unrecorded
Camera: Kodak Retina III
Lens: Schneider f1.2 50mm
Date: July, 1978
Location: Our Mother of Sorrows Shrine, Mabou, NS
The photo on the extreme left was a simple "snapshot" taken
late one Sunday afternoon. Beyond
the fact that the lighting posed an interesting exercise in metering, especially
with slide film which
has very little exposure latitude, there is little to command one's attention.
Thus for some years
the slide remained in storage. About four years ago, while sorting and
reorganizing the slide
collection I examined the slide more carefully and noticed something unusual
about the frontal
window in the small chapel. Under examination with a loupe the image of
a person, in partial
profile, seemed to present itself. Later I had the slide digitized and
placed on a Kodak Photo CD
by Appleby Colour Labs, in New Brumswick. Using Adobe Photo Shop it was
then possible
to make the croppings that appear above. The photographer offers no explanation
for whatever
one may perceive in these photographs, only to state that the photograph
is original and has
never been retouched or electronically manipulated except to do the cropping.
However, your
comments would be welcome.
Norman G. MacKinnon ve1mos@auracom.com
