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07.12.05 (3:14 pm) [edit]

& nbsp;

I’m not sure if I’m breaking any copyright rules here, hope not.

I recently bought the above postcard. I like black and white photography, especially when it’s high contrast. I loved the composition of this pic, it somehow felt quirky and made me smile. A few days later I was scanning some documents and decided to scan the postcard into the computer. I couldn’t believe what appeared (the above pic). I hadn’t seen the boy in the original photo! I see him there now, just, but he’s nowhere as clear on the original as he is on the scanned image. It’s stopped looking quirky and seems a bit sinister now.

posted by: childish (reply)
post date: 07.12.05 (6:39 am)

weird!
i got chills just thinking about it.

posted by: rosietulips (reply)
post date: 07.12.05 (7:33 am)

The boy makes the picture creepy! Hello, Andaloo!! Long time no see :-O I hope all is well :)

posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 07.12.05 (7:40 am)

There's a painting by Degas called Interior that comes to mind when I look at your postcard. The main subject of the painting is a woman dressing in a barely lit room... but in the shadows you can see a man leaning against the wall watching her. Depending on your frame of mind, the work can be seen as either quite beautiful and intimate or truly disturbing. Either way, I like the multiple layers of it in the same way that this postcard appeals to me.

Thank goodness you scanned it, eh?

posted by: badaunt (reply)
post date: 07.12.05 (11:46 pm)

I love it. I love the way the story of the picture changes when you see the boy.

It has also inspired my next blog post.

posted by: TorryGirl (reply)
post date: 07.13.05 (1:27 am)

That must have been a little creepy, to suddenly have a person appear in a photo where there wasn't one before...

posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 07.13.05 (8:24 am)

Boy, he sure is looking right at the camera, eh? As sinister as this picture appears, I bet he's really thinking, 'Man, that woman can gab for ages. When are we going to the park?!'

posted by: jennjr (reply)
post date: 07.15.05 (6:57 am)

Ooo, that's kind of creepy!
It's kind of like those stories of people who take rolls of film to get developed and find images of ghosts in them...

posted by: NurseNancy (reply)
post date: 07.17.05 (7:52 am)

I found it a bit disconcerting at first. But look at it a little longer, and you see a little boy just patiently waiting for his mom "to get off the phone, already!"

posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 07.17.05 (6:44 pm)

Freaky! If you look closely you can make out another face above the boys head.

posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 07.24.05 (11:26 am)

obviously the boy arrived from the woman's hips

posted by: librarianguish (reply)
post date: 07.25.05 (7:36 am)

Well, that is a bit strange, isn't it? Dark and sinister.