Title : I have adopted an answer to the mystery of the strange photograph: The Phantom Gnat!
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I have adopted an answer to the mystery of the strange photograph: The Phantom Gnat!
You remember this photograph I posted yesterday, an image I was surprised to find among my sunrise photographs and not something I was trying to do:
I had said in the comments: "I know it’s out of focus, but why? And why is the sun a full circle? It was only a quarter of the way up."
Oddly, some people were talking about the "circle of confusion" (a complicated subject in photography) and others were talking about the song by Cyrkle, "Red Rubber Ball" (because, as Paul Simon wrote in the lyrics, "The morning sun is shining like a red rubber ball").
Several commenters usefully brought up bokeh — which I understand — but, as I said in the comments, "I thought the camera would do that in the parts of the photo that were not deemed to be the subject. I've aimed the camera at the sun like this thousands of time and I've never seen it 'decide' that the sun is the subject and everything else should be gently fuzzed — especially with this additional effect of completely reshaping the sun, showing a circle for something that was visible as less than a half circle."
Kylos responded: "It’s actually the opposite. It’s focused on something nearby instead of the sun. My experience is that shooting into the sun can cause autofocus to get confused. Possible a lens flare or glowing dust particle caused the autofocus to think the subject was inches from your camera. Because the sun is also completely out of focus, it’s circle of confusion ends up projecting on top of the darker horizon."
That pointed me at what I declare to be the answer: "Maybe an insect flew by, got focused on, then went off camera as the image was captured. That's my theory! The phantom gnat!"
Interesting to wear a buzz cut in 1966. From the Wikipedia article on Cyrkle:
The band was formed by guitarists and lead singers Don Dannemann and Tom Dawes (who also played bass guitar), and Jim Maiella (the original drummer), who all met while studying at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Dannemann enlisted in the US Coast Guard in 1966....I guess that explains the hair, but you know, they had wigs back then.
They were originally a "frat rock" band called The Rhondells but were later discovered and managed by Brian Epstein, who was best known as manager of The Beatles.... John Lennon provided the unique spelling of their new name....The respelling of "circle" as "Cyrkle" is a Beatles thing to do. Don't get me started on that. Byrds, Monkees, Phish, Korn, Def Leppard... you can go down that road without my guidance.
As for The Rhondells, if you feel like you've heard of them, you're probably thinking of The Shondells...
... maybe with a little Rhonda in them...
You can listen to Simon and Garfunkel sing "Red Rubber Ball" here.
Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea.
There are so many starfish in the sea and so many gnats over Lake Mendota.
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