I have written more regarding my photography than I have my art, even though this site is first and foremost an art gallery. I feel my paintings speak mainly for themselves and do not require much in the way of explanation, whereas my photographs certainly do!

THOUGHTS ON PSYCHIC PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART AND LIFE AND STRANGE THINGS...

Really, it was a little like something out of a fairy tale, or a childrens story.

When I was little, I longed to find Enid Blytons 'Faraway Tree', with the magical lands that endlessly revolved at the top. I wanted a Wishing Chair, winged and ready to fly me to other worlds. I wanted a magic lamp, a genie in a bottle, an Otherworld adventure. I wanted to find treasure too.

My interest in the paranormal and many other related subjects began very early. By the time I was eleven those interests were fully formed, an integral part of the personality that I was born with. That interest and the study and discoveries that followed became what has been for me a life-long passion, an ongoing and never-ending project.

About sixteen years ago I met a man who could take psychic photographs, pictures full of apparent paranormal anomalies that took the form of beautiful light formations. This was long before the days when everyone had a computer and internet access. Now, of course there are hundreds of sites dedicated to these explorations and there are many, many thousands of photos with paranormal content, lots of which are quite genuine.

I looked through dozens of this gentlemans fascinating photos, full of glorious and mysterious lights and colours, and I remember thinking how wonderful it would be to be able to take pictures like those. At the time, I hadn't even begun to paint. I didn't really feel I had much to offer in the way of talent, and as I had a teen and two toddlers I didn't have much time anyway.

Later I began to paint, and as I taught myself more and more I began to gain confidence. Once I realised that I actually had talent I began to take myself a little more seriously and plan ahead. I have to thank my husband John for giving me the confidence to do so. Without him, none of this might ever have happened. I now believe that everybody has at least one special talent. I know how easy it might be to go a whole lifetime, and through circumstance never discover it, and I am grateful that I was able to do so.

I remember when I first began to receive e-mails and offers regarding my art, and the realization that I had created something that others found very beautiful. Everything took on a magical quality for a while. Life had an added dimension and I felt joy and drive and purpose because of it. I felt as though I had been given a very wonderful and magical present straight out of the blue, something that was worth far more than money. It was real buried treasure, and a huge adventure that changed my life.

I didn't really expect to have anything like that happen to me again. Daily life can certainly be interesting but it hardly fosters dreams of mystical or intriguing adventures. But, importantly for me, I am aware of the infinite possibilities, and I am certainly never surprised to hear of the adventures and talents of others. I'm always very glad to hear that people are having them. I just wasn't expecting it to happen to me again.

For quite a while I had wanted a digital camera so that I could obtain both reference shots for my artwork and detailed images of my paintings. I knew it would make a big difference to the way in which people viewed the art on my website. Naturally, I was surprised and pleased to receive a very nice one for Christmas. I didn't use it until January on the night of the full moon. Inspired by the beauty of the night I went out hoping to capture an image of the moon, which was partially obscured by irridescent and diaphonous clouds.

I took several pictures and then went back inside eager to find out what the photos looked like. Imagine my surprise when the first image revealed not the moon, but what looked like a head made out of light, and a trail of purple, green and blue light next to it weaving upwards and off the picture like a snake. Not quite understanding what had happened, I looked at the rest and saw some very strange shapes in the sky. Magnifying them, I understood that I had captured both what looked like a psychic anomaly in the first shot and several very clear (I haven't had any better ufo shots since) pics of a ufo doing some kind of arial manouevre in the following images. I could hardly believe my fortune! My very first photo's!

A week later I had a whole batch of photographs with what appeared to be paranormal anomalies on them, and it was slowly dawning on me that I was probably a psychic photographer! After a little while of taking these photographs I began to understand that I might have another gift, and to me, a most exciting one. I didn't, and still don't, know if it will stay with me for the rest of my life, but whether or not, to me it was a golden opportunity to see beyond the limitations of my physical eyes. I have always been psychic in many little ways, but I could never physically see very much, and that not clearly.

As this was the answer to a hearts prayer, I really had discovered something as exciting as my childhood dreams and fantasies were. Imagine - being given a magic camera that could take photographs of beings from other realms! What an adventure!

Of course, I know that it isn't the camera itself that is responsible for these images, nor is it real magic in the strict sense of the word, but for me it may as well be.

I have discovered that I have an attitude that displeases those who operate from a purely scientific perspective. My methods are also definitely not up to scratch! I fully admit to this, and I don't really care. To explain this seemingly irresponsible comment I will have to tell you more about what I am doing, what I hope to achieve, and why.

Many, many people around the world work very hard to prove scientifically the existence of 'ghosts' and other-dimensional reality. While their adventures and exploits were literary sustenance to me when I was young, and while I have for many years greatly respected much of the work done then and now in this area of research, my personal perspective is very different.

I have always approached things intuitively, and this was highlighted for me when I began to paint. I have been psychic in many ways since childhood, and I can't remember a time when I considered the possibility, even remotely, that such things as faeries and ghosts might not exist. This means to me that although I really love to see proof of interdimensional life in whatever way it is presented, that's because I do love to see it, not because I need proof.

This doesn't mean that I'm gullible, because I'm not known to be so, but I think you do have to be open to experience in order to have one. Usually, that is! Personal experience is often the final proof for the individual who has doubts, and until then I don't think there is much anyone can do to convince someone else.

Does it even matter? I believe yes and no. It doesn't matter because the individual is presented by the universe with what they need at the time, and if belief in what is beyond the scale of our human senses is beyond them, then not much can be done until their 'bandwidth' broadens. There may be very good reasons why this should be so. On the other hand, the fact so many seem undecided seems to me to be part of a larger underlying problem that humanity is having.

In no other area of research has so much proof been put forward and dismissed or shelved. If this sheer weight of reasonable evidence had been presented in any other area, it would by now at least have been accepted in the sense of, yes, it was generally agreed by thinking people and scientists that these phenomena, like the tachyon, were at some level genuine, even if there were not quantifiable data yet available to categorise and measure it by.

After all, paranormal phenonema has been recorded for thousands of years, and recently, very well indeed. Of course there are hoaxes, but let us realise that hoaxes and cons are perpetrated in many areas of life, and when they are uncovered under these circumstances, the hoaxers are discredited - not the subject around which the dishonesty was perpetrated. When people are found to be wasting their own and everybody elses time with immature and spiteful hoaxing, apart from the inconvenience caused - so what? It proves or disproves nothing, only complicates the issue.

At some point most of us were trained to rely on science for all the answers, to the point where many of us are willing to deny the often overwhelming evidence of our own, or other peoples' senses and experiences.

Does evidence for something as elusive as the paranormals' existence lie in the realms of the individual or group experience?

Or within the experiments of the scientists?

My personal opinion is that both are not only valid as areas in which to discover the truth, but neccessary. As both the left and right hemispheres of the brain have an equally important function and use, so do objective and subjective experiences and experiments play an equal and valid role in our research, exploration and discovery. I am not a scientist, and although I have a fairly analytical mind I really am much better in areas that involve the use of intuition and artistic abilities. But creativity and thinking outside the box can be put to use in a variety of ways when it comes to experimenting independently and imaginatively.

I would like to tell you about the actual photographs, how I take them, and why they do not make good 'proof' even when the images I capture are very clear. I would also like to tell you about why I think the images, and my discoveries regarding them, may be important to both researchers and psychic photographers in the future. I will share my unusual tips for other photographers, and the reasons why I think they work, and also give those who want to an opportunity to see the results of my work, much of it done seemingly in co-operation with other dimensional life-forms.

I cannot offer proof, I don't think anyone can, as I said before. My hope is that you will read what I have to say carefully and view the photographs with an open mind and heart. Some of you will recognise the validity of these images. If viewing them holds open a door for some of you to gaze for a moment into the Otherworld, perhaps for the first time, or better still, encourages others to experiment successfully and share the results, I will be partially fullfilling one of the things I came here to help do - open doors that have been shut for far too long!

PHOTOGRAPHING FAERIES - FOR REAL!
I often feel now that my paintings and my photo's are linked in some way, as though they both grew from the same seed, which would definitely have been my longing and desire to both see that which is usually hidden from our eyes and for others also to be able to do so. To share these personal psychic experiences and their evidence with both those that also underwent paranormal experiences, and those that had not yet done so, but had interests in that direction, always seemed like an opportunity for everyones personal growth, to me.

I personally believe I can photograph spirits, but I have considered what other ingredients could be at work. Thoughtography is the ability to impress thoughts in the form of pictures and symbols onto a photograph, either deliberately or involuntarily. Ted Serios was the best known example of a person with this psychic talent, and this is one example of what could be happening . Some of my photo's contain very clear and lifelike images while others look more like illustrations or even cartoons. I will come back to this phenomena later.

Some of you may believe that I have faked the images, and that I myself have perpetrated a hoax. I assure you this is not so, and I have several good personal reasons why I wouldn't ever do such a thing. Before making my ability public I thought long and hard about doing so. In particular I thought about how doing so might impact my career as an artist. I have reached the point in my life where I am about to have a lot more time and freedom.

The children are grown, or very almost, and will soon be busy with their own adult lives and I will be able to pursue the plans I have had on hold for a long time, largely due to a shortage of time and space. Most parents know what this is like. As the next few years will be crucial to those plans, I naturally do not want any reputation I have gained to be tarnished by peoples doubts about my credibility due to accusations of hoaxes, falsifying photographic evidence, lying or just being plain stupid.

By writing about this subject and allowing people to view the photographs on such a public venue as the internet, I am laying myself open to such charges. I at one point decided not to do so, but I ended up feeling tremendous internal pressure to change my mind. It is still with trepidation that I do so, but I find it is something that I absolutely have to do.

One of the reasons is that some of my photographic work seems to contain images of elementals, spirits of place and what I believe to be tree spirits. It is very, very important for me to show people that the vegetation, land and animal life that is being destroyed and damaged in the interests of commerce is inhabited, just as our bodies are, by living spirits who also suffer, just as we do.

Another reason is that I feel compelled to share the evidence. It may give others the courage to share their own stories and evidence. Also, by examining my own photo's, I was able to identify many points of similarity in the photo's of others, things I noticed over and over. I have a very good eye for detail, and it has taught me a lot. I've found this to be very useful and it's helped me to partially categorise some of the anomalies I have found in photographs.

The things that struck me most when I began taking these photo's was that they seemed very, very prolific. I began magnifying them and I found tiny images and vignettes that seemed to belong to a sci-fi world. When I tried to snap friends and family members, they were often not alone.

Faces, or even rows of faces, would appear in a mist, Sometimes their were lights and animals. sometimes their were much stranger things visible. Certain family members (several chipped in to help buy a decent digital camera) declared "we should never have got you that camera!" Others eagerly posed over and over for me.

To my chagrin I found I couldn't take a normal photograph even if I wanted to. Even if there weren't images of faces and other such stuff, as there often were, there was always a kind of textured mist-like substance covering everything, and no matter how hard I tried they were always slightly out of focus and often there appeared to have been movement where there was none (although I came to use camera movement as an aid to receiving anomalous images, as you'll see).

Even if at first the photo appeared normal, when seen magnified this stuff covered everything. This means that my husband still has to take the reference photo's for my paintings when neccessary, as mine are useless for those purposes.

I began very soon after discovering this ability to do more research. I knew a little about it but not enough to figure out the mechanism that made it occur. I soon found out that people with this gift were known as photographic mediums, and that it was considered a genuine form of mediumship. This did not really surprise me because things have happened around me since I was about twelve, when we had an outbreak of poltergeist, or maybe PK, activity. This was to be the first of many in my life.

I used to believe that I had somehow selected an ongoing series of haunted houses to live in. Finally I clued in to the fact it was I myself who was 'haunted'. I never felt alone and spirits came to me all the time. Shapes shifted around me on the edge of my peripheral vision, but I could never catch them full-on and view them. Objects, even furniture, trembled and shook, many minor types of phenomena was experienced by family and guests alike over the years.

So many things happened, and I have noted that things have definitely 'hotted up' since I began taking these pictures. I read another psychic photographer's account of how this also happened to him. If you use a psychic gift I suppose, like any other, it develops. For me, it is like being poised on the edge of an adventure with no idea of the outcome, and yet it's a path I cannot refuse to follow. I think that if I somehow have the ability to take these pictures then there is a reason for this. I enjoy taking them, it's very exciting wondering what will appear next, and I feel there is a purpose to this that I don't fully understand yet.

When I received the camera I began to take it with me when we went for family outings and drives. By now I was actively taking photographs for the sole purpose of capturing anomalous images. If we passed somewhere in the car that I sensed was a good place to try and 'get' something, I would ask my husband to stop so I could take photo's. This he willingly and good-naturedly did, and I got some great shots, but after a while I began to feel guilty about interrupting everything. One day, itching to take photographs, I let the window down in the car and began aiming into the forested area we were driving through. I got a little carried away and took dozens of shots before realising the car was freezing cold.

When I got home I immediately checked the images, as I usually do. A lot of them had speed blurs on them, naturally, but that was not all. Superimposed over the blurs were shapes and faces - a lot of faces. This occurred on many of the speed blurs, most of them, in fact!

I was astounded but also elated, and I had the strange feeling I was indeed beginning a huge adventure. I started going out specifically to take these strange speed-blur photo's. Before I left the house, and while we were driving, I put out the mental message that I would be taking photographs interdimensionally and anyone who wished to appear on them was welcome to do so. I made it clear that discarnate humans, elemental spirits, local spirits of place and gods and goddesses, animal spirits, e.t.'s and any other life-forms I might be unaware of were all in fact welcome to appear in my pictures.

I asked that this be a co-creative effort to make the generally invisible visible for all to see, if people were open and willing to do so. My husband drove, and sometimes he would stop for me and I would take ordinary still photographs. He varied the speed when I requested him to as well, so that I could experiment.

Everytime I went out like this I took 130-140 pics, usually in an hour to an hour and a half. Sometimes there were large anomalies on them, faces or shapes that took up the whole image, and sometimes I found very tiny ones that only became visible upon magnification. I began to edit the photo's, cropping areas of activity and enlarging them, adjusting the color and light to see them as clearly as I could get them.

I always kept the original untouched photo, although I made the sad mistake of sizing some of the earlier ones, and I have literally hundreds of them on file in case of any future and legitimate interest from individuals with personal curiosity, or even paranormal investigators, not to mention my own on-going personal research.

I thought about this phenomenon a lot. I noticed that often faces appeared in a more or less straight line right across a blur. This was very interesting to me. These faces seemed to be appearing by actually using the light created by the blur to manifest in, and in that case, they might be painting their own portraits with the actual light. This might mean that they were aware of what I was attempting to do, and were actually arranging for it to happen outside of our own space-time continuum. That could also mean an ongoing co-operative experiment, leading to a much better understanding of many things, for me at least. This was new and exciting and something I was (and am) more than happy to continue.

Week after week I took photo's, in the house, from the car, on walks, through my open windows, of pets, friends, relatives, sky, trees and plants. And on and on came the seemingly endless stream of anomalous images. I bugged everyone who lived in the house or visited, calling them to the computer or camera to check they too could see what I could so clearly. They could, and I was elated with every new batch of exciting images.

It got so I was very familiar with the subtle nuances of these photographs. I could tell when a face tried to form, but didn't quite 'make' it. They were identifiable to me as faces, but not clearly enough to show to other people as examples. But a lot of them were clear enough. These clear faces would be lined up on speed blurs, and visible also in grass and trees, and most would be looking straight at me. Some just stared, some looked a little angry, but a lot were smiling.

The quality of these anomalous photographs did vary enormously, even within the same picture. Some were almost photographic, to the point where they would be recognisable to the people who knew them. Others were mistier, or cruder, or incomplete, but still obviously faces. The third main category of face looked very strange. Instead of photographic quality, they looked like crude drawings or paintings, or even simple cartoons of faces. These also were clearly faces, but more in the category of poor quality artwork.

This tied in with my idea that spirits were 'painting' their portraits with light. It stood to reason, in my eyes, that some entities would be more accomplished at appearing than others. A lot would depend upon their visualization skills, and a continuing awareness of what they looked like in embodiment (that is, assuming that these human faces are actually formed by discarnate humans, and that they are attempting to appear as they once were while here in third density).

I decided to accept this premise for the moment, and try and work with all these people who seemed so eager to appear. More rarely, whole figures appeared. One of them even stood by the side of the road waving to me. He was smiling and wore glasses, and I have been surprised at how many people appear still wearing them. It is quite frequent to see this, for me.

People are not the only things that appear in my pictures, and I am displaying on this site different categories of photographic anomaly so that the viewer can see the range of phenomena I've captured. I notice this range is added to as I progress in this exploration.

Animals began to turn up, especially cats. Eyes, alone and in pairs, stared out from trees and foliage. More rarely sci-fi like scenes and unusual vignettes put in an appearance. Once I found the image of a beautiful perfume bottle full of pink liquid sitting on someones front lawn, seemingly completely out of place even for an anomaly. Strange non-human faces and figures showed up, watching me.

Some of them appeared more than once, on separate occasions, mainly Sasquatch-like heads, and I began to recognise them. Small elemental-like entities and what I believe to be tree spirits showed fairly frequently. Entities that looked like mythic beings from legends looked down from the sky or flew through the woods. Strange and beautiful light formations lit up some of the images. It was exciting, even exhillerating.

I spent a lot of time thinking about the way light seemed to be used by some spirits to form in. Others appeared on images taken whilst still with no apparent need to utilise the speed blurs. I noticed that it was mainly human faces that manifested through the blurs, as though making a concious effort to do so as an experiment or method of communication, while the non-human entities were easier to capture an image of as they observed my actions whilst photographing in their spheres of activity.

It was around this time that I decided to play with the different settings on my camera. One was for night photography and had a longer time exposure. I first used it in a dim room one evening after dark, and I realised after a little while that this was going to be an asset to my experiments. It became obvious to me that the longer exposure time gave me more prolific, clearer and more detailed anomalous images. I will assume for now that this type of camera setting allows entities a longer time to 'create' with the light and perfect the appearance of their manifestations.

I began to use this setting even in daylight, both still and while moving, and got results beyond my best hopes. I believe this may hold a great clue for paranormal photographers, and a starting point for future more creative experimentation,both by myself and, hopefully, many others.

How does what is not usually seen by the human eye become suddenly visible on a camera image, for all to see? Obviously, many entities of many varieties, including human, exist anyway. They can, apparently, at least under certain circumstances, see and interact with us far more easily than we can do so with them. Yet, when some people take photographs, they can appear for us all to see on the image produced.

Why? The explanation that this occurs due to the mediumistic abilities of some photographers, even if correct, does not explain how it occurs. It was suggested to me that it could be an unknown constituent of the aura, or electro-magnetic field, of the medium or psychic that allows for the possibility of photographing anomalies.

Shortly after this I did some night photography around the town I reside in and picked up quite a lot of anomalous images, including what appears to be a complex image of a motorcycle accident that possibly occured in the past (I am very interested in the possibility of photographing past or future events, and I may have done so in this case). The shot was actually taken on a still, quiet street, late one night, and there was no-one present but my husband and myself, and there was certainly no accident.

I have included the photos of this 'event' in the gallery for your persual.

While I was going through some of these night images I noticed something very strange. On several photo's I could see a purple section, a bar that ran vertically down the picture, taking up approximately one third of it. I freely admit to knowing next to nothing about photography. I thought it might have been a natural phenonema, but no-one I talked to had ever heard of it if it was.

I started to check all my night photo's.

By playing with the light and gamma settings, I soon found that each and every photo contained what I have come to call the purple bar. I eventually found it on some of the darker of my photo's taken in the day. In other words it is probable that this 'purple bar' is present on each of my photographs. Even more suprising was my discovery that in each bar, if only vaguely seen, a pair of eyes look back at me (see photo section).

I don't know if these are my own eyes, reflected back from the bar, but they look a little familiar. Anyhow, I have to wonder what this bar is. Is it present when others take psychic photographs? Is it photographing through this unknown agent that allows the anomalies to appear, or is it in itself an unrelated anomaly?

I feel intuitively that it may be an important factor.

I think it is a great shame that people do not take their anomalous photographs into a good image editor and have a proper look. Here are my reasons, and my advice to other photographers:

There is a whole world of difference between taking your image into Photoshop and 'creating' an anomaly, and adjusting light settings to bring out the image more clearly. Always keep the original, untouched image. This is only common sense, but please experiment with that image. As light settings and color values are subtly changed and tuned, often new anomalies appear that went unnoticed before. I have cruised dozens of internet galleries of 'ghost' photo's. There are so many good photo's out there, besides the fakes!

Thousands of people are getting results, especially from digital cameras. Most people get orbs, the most questionable and controversial of anomalous images. Unfortunately, many natural conditions mimic the appearance of orbs, so good examples are relatively hard to come by, although a few people are doing some very interesting and cutting-edge research in this area.

As most of the anomalies captured on camera are orbs, this doesn't end up telling us very much. I myself have only recorded a very few possible orbs. For some reason I don't seem to get them, and I'm glad. They don't interest me nearly so much as manifested entity forms, and they are a lot harder to categorise as anomalies than a clear, recognisable face or figure, at least for the photographer. As I said, however, I have found several websites owned by people who are doing very serious work studying and categorising orb activity.

Examining other peoples photo's has enabled me to learn a lot when comparing them to my own. I sometimes find pictures that look very much like my own, with similar textures, imagery and overall appearance. Several times I have lifted someones image and taken it into an editor to satisfy my curiosity. These photo's usually have one visible anomaly that a person has discovered and excitedly sent in to one of the major paranormal photo-sites.

The untouched photograph is usually displayed as is, with no editing. Examining them and editing them often reveals other anomalies unnoticed by both the photographer and the host photo-site.

This is particularly amusing if the photo has been deemed a possible fake, and I find all this anomalous stuff on the image that none of them have noticed! Of course, there is nothing I can do about this as these photo's are not my copyright property and when I've finished checking them I have to delete them, but I am constantly surprised that no-one, not even most paranormal photographers, are more thorough in editing and checking these exciting images.

Once again, scientific research has put the dampers on experimental research, making people scared of accusations of hoaxing. No-one will ever discover anything under this stultifying regime. That is not how psychic energy works.

It is playful and interactive!

I myself ran into trouble with ghost hunters when I foolishly joined a ghost-hunters research group online so that I could discuss my own and other peoples experiences and results. After introducing myself I added a link to a website I had opened to display some of the photographs I had taken.

I was immediately innundated with negative and sarcastic mail. There were some who ridiculed my work because I hadn't followed the criteria they had set for taking paranormal photographs after I had explained my methods. Because I had changed settings and taken some of the photo's while moving, they were not valid. The fact that there were very clear and identifiable images on a lot of them that could not possibly be caused by movement, weather, or any other of the many enemies of paranormal photography, went right by them.

The main objection from most people, though, really surprised me. The general concensus was that my photographs were too good. They couldn't possibly be paranormal because they were too clear, varied and prolific. I must have created them in photoshop. No-one was taking photo's like this, and in so many categories. If I was for real, I was told, it would be too amazing.

I was too good! I couldn't believe they wouldn't give me a chance, and every time I tried to state my case the hostility grew. If I was real, they said, people would want to study me, but as my photo's appeared too good, I couldn't be for real, so they weren't interested (duh!). For a start, I couldn't have captured that many spirit faces. It didn't happen (I beg to differ - I have seen this phenomena before on other peoples work, even if not often).

I assured them that it did, and I had before got a dozen or more on one photo.

I was told by a young and very arrogant researcher that he had personally racked up many, many frozen hours hanging around cemeteries with his group. He had spent hundreds on sophisticated equipment (I'm not knocking this specialised equipment, it has great value and I would like to own some of it myself) and had also painstakingly recorded times and dates, weather conditions, temperatures, the people present and all the other data neccessary for a careful scientific experiment to be carried out.

After a many months this group had captured a single possible orb. They were deadly serious about their research and and approached it with absolutely no pleasure, lacking any sense of wonder or humour.

Disappointing as this was for them, I do believe an open mind and a willingness to experiment would have enhanced their attempts to record phenomena, and having someone who had a genuine psychic gift would have helped too. But it seemed to me that their self-imposed work was joyless and barren, and anyway, their hostility towards me was uncomfortable and unproductive.

They were not able to think outside the box, and besides, even if they had captured a hundred orbs on film, what would it have proved to anyone else? They would simply have joined the other many thousands of orb photo's that can be found all over the place. I withdrew from the group (a undeniable sign to them of my 'fakery', I'm sure) and resolved to join no more.

My experiments are open and free. I am not trying to prove anything. I believe that would be a fruitless and unproductive task. My hope is that my work, both in the form of paintings and paranormal photographs, will speak to people through heart, mind and spirit. If what they said was true, might I be that 'good'? Good is an uncomfortable word, really. I work very hard when it comes to my paintings, even though I enjoy it, and if people say I am talented or good, that's fine.

My photo's are a different matter, however. As I have continued to receive these images, I have become more psychic generally and photographed in more categories. Like an excercised muscle, things become more enhanced and finely tuned, and yet I wouldn't call it the kind of talent that is learned and worked at. The only work is in devising and setting up my experiments and sessions with the camera (the real work comes in editing and writing about the photo's later - now that is a real labor of love).

Apart from that, I literally only point and click. There is no photographic or compositional skill required. A lot of it is random. So, I'm not 'good', but I do believe I have been given a psychic gift to use and cherish. I see this as a way to show others who are open to possibilities the realities of other worlds and dimensions, and also to give them hope.

So maybe I have that talent, and I'm willing to work with others who recognise that possibility. Many people have sat with me and seen the instant results of my photographs within seconds of them being taken. They know.

I suspect that a lot of people will soon be taking many more anomalous photo's as time goes by. I think some people already are and either don't know it or don't wish to tell people. I encourage everyone to check their photo's very carefully. A lot of people are not aware that they have a psychic gift and an anomaly can often appear at first sight to be a film or camera glitch. This means, especially with so many digital cameras about, that a lot of these unusual snapshots get erased.

After all, most people are looking for perfect pics, not anomalies. My own daughter and several of her friends have sometimes shown me strange photo's that they have themselves taken. They seem unconcerned and take it as almost natural that this should occur sometimes, and I agree.

It is becoming more prevalent, and will continue to do so as time progresses. This is partly because of the popularity of the digital camera. I think that digital cameras are very good at aiding people in capturing anomalous images. They have the ability to 'see' or record more of the electromagnetic spectrum than the 'visible spectrum' we can normally see. We can in reality only see a very small portion of this electromagnetic spectrum.

We visibly miss most of what is actually going on, which is good, because it would be very confusing trying to function here on this planet otherwise. So a photographic psychic medium may in some way be a 'translator', the go-between who somehow enables what is recorded digitally to appear for all to see. The possibilities for experimentation and research seem rich and varied.

As a self-taught artist I have been very experimental, learning techniques from books and then developing my own techniques and style almost immediately. I have approached paranormal photography in a similar intuitive way.

This isn't exactly planned, it is just the way in which I approach things naturally.

One saturday morning I was up very early as my husband had to leave for work at 6.00 a.m. that day. Feeling a little under the weather and slightly bored, I turned on the t.v. The wedding ceremonies of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles was being televised live on several channels. I am not particularly interested in British royal affairs even though I'm English.

I often lose interest while watching television, and this was no exception, so at one point I got out my camera, opened a window and began taking photographs. When I had finished I sat down again, and, just for the heck of it began photographing the ceremonies.

I took numerous shots. This was the first time I ever took photographs directly off a t.v. screen and when I looked at them I saw that a very exciting event had occurred. There were strange anomalies on quite a lot of the shots, but one in particular was so amazing that I couldn't believe my fortune. In a picture of both Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, a large, very clear image of a man's head appears, glaring and malevolent. It certainly wasn't a scene-change double image. He looks cultured, educated and very, very angry.

I will include the photo on this site in the interest of sharing this information due to the highly unusual circumstances surrounding the image.

After this happened I began photographing such t.v. fare as 'Britains Most Haunted' and other documentary programs dealing with psychic phenonema and hauntings. I taped these programs first and then replayed them, making sure I avoided all scene shifts and those extrememly annoying special effects that some of these documentaries use as useless and sensationalized filler. To my (ongoing) delight, I found I was picking up a seemingly endless array of anomalous images.

I am going to share those images (if someone wants to research my abilities - I'm perfectly willing to demonstrate), but I have reached some interesting tentative conclusions with fabulous implications for researchers of paranormal phenonema everywhere. I have enough photographic evidence to convince myself that Derek Acorah is a genuine medium, for instance. I have photographs of ghosts galore, mainly disembodied headshots, from dozens of t.v. programs, and they are often right where various psychics say they are seeing them at the time. Great fun!

I now believe that all cameras, to one degree or another, record paranormal phenonema invisibly. I'm also sure that this invisible interdimensional data can be retrieved by a paranormal photographer or medium, such as myself.

The implications are tremendous! Imagine the psychic activity surrounding great or dramatic world events. One exciting thought is in regards to history. I recorded and photographed a documentary about the last days of Pompeii. A lot of readers will have seen it, I'm sure.

I captured several ghost faces and even figures that I believe to be of ancient origin, dating from the disaster, hardly surprising under the tragic circumstances.

This seems a very exciting possibility to me. I have also captured a very few anomalous images from old black and white newsreel and similar vintage footage. I have not yet been able to retrieve anything from a still photograph that someone else has taken. It seems it must be video footage for me to be able to retrieve it, at least so far.

Since then, I have taken my experiments one step further. I have a folder on my computer that is labelled 'Black Bag Shots', my name for a curious method of collecting anomalous images.

I had completed a painting that was too large to fit inside the storage folder where I usually keep them. To protect it I wrapped it in a black garbage bag and stood it upright against a bookcase until I could find a better place for it.

Later on I was taking photographs inside the house. I happened to pass the camera over the bag, and as I did so I noticed that the reflections and wrinkles on the bag made interesting patterns of light and dark.

I took a few shots on the night setting, moving the camera slightly and deliberately as I did so. When I looked at them, the clear image of a man's face was looking back at me from one of them.

If spirits do use the light to manifest in, as I believe, then it seems to me that it shouldn't make much difference as to when or where the photography takes place, as long as a suitable background and light source are provided for manifestation purposes.

I am saying this because I think that these spirits are mostly looking for an opportunity for some kind of communication, and may even be cooperating with certain psychic individuals in a type of Otherworldly experiment to reveal the fact that life continues after so-called death, and also exists on many more levels than most people are aware of.

I also believe that at this time the dimensions are once again drawing closer together (a clumsy way to describe it, I know), and that a lot of people will begin having many more psychic and spiritual experiences, and some are already doing so.

Otherwise it points to most of the places I photograph in being badly haunted, photo's of elementals excluded, and I don't personally believe that to be true. I have several dozen 'black bag shots' that show clearly defined images that appear to be anomalous. I have included in the photo section some examples for your consideration.

Just recently I have begun to capture what are known as 'shadow people' or 'shadow figures' as well, and I find them to be very interesting indeed, and hope to get more. I'm not sure what they are, they do not seem to be ordinary ghosts, as in the spirits of deceased people, but I really don't know. There will also be a gallery dedicated to the numerous forms of Ape-man or Sasquatch images it has been my pleasure to record.

I do feel that I may be leaving myself open to ridicule and accusation from some areas, but I'm willing to live with that because I truly believe in what I'm doing. Nothing happens for no reason, and I will continue to experiment because I know that it will be a voyage of self-discovery also, an ongoing journey. I'm also not claiming that I never make a mistake about an image. Out of the huge amount I now have, I must have made some, and in the first months I was trying to learn a lot quickly and enthusiastically. But from the sheer amount I have now amassed, I must be receiving something real. Please view the photographs and decide for yourselves.

I hope that some of you will be encouraged to experiment also, and if you do, I would love to hear about it. Of course, there are many more ways to do so than just with photography, and it's all of interest to me.

Thankyou for your interest in my site. Blessings!