3D, Baby Face, Mark Twain, Fantasmic! finale, Disneyland®, Anaheim, California, 2008.08.08 21:50

[crosseye stereograph, see 3D with your right eye on the left image, and left on right.]

I met my wife at Disneyland - sort of. It was a 30's party at a mutual friend's house, Prof.Johns. There were many cast members there. She played Snow White, and I managed the Character warehouse. This shot contains many of our mutual friends, both face characters, and carpets. They are lined up along the port side of the Mark Twain. But there is no person whose face fills the frame.
I have plenty of shots of the Mark Twain finale of Fantasmic!, both moments before and after this one was taken. Initially I was going to delete it, because it is severely flawed, but as I was about shred it, my favorite photo of my wife, the one used for her album cover, fell off of the wall. This image is the unmodified union of the left and right images captured by two separate cameras, whose shutters were triggered simultaneously using the infra-red remote.
I had always agreed with my wife, that when we pass, we would meet at the Haunted Mansion. She died of breast and lung cancer complications on August 8, 2008, at eleven till eleven, about the time this shot was taken from Fowler's Harbor, the service dock for the large ships at Disneyland.
She always joked that when we meet in the afterlife, she would say "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Wizard."

Technical detail: Most "ghost" images, as captured by a camera, are the result of additional light entering the lens, either as a reflection or double exposure. In days long gone, photographic emulsion was required to expose for a very long time in order to capture an image, so the blinking of an eye would cause a smear or "ghost" as well as someone who walked into a field of frame accidentally, stood in one spot for a moment, and then quickly walked off would also cast a sheer see-through image. Photographs taken through glass can also create a real-time "ghost" of see through image such as the ballroom scene of the [nearby] Haunted Mansion, an effect known as "Pepper's Ghost."
And the famous "Oops, I forgot to advance the roll!" double exposure can also make it seem that there are two semi-transparent images ghosting each other.
Nowadays, in the era of digital imagery, double exposure and elapsed time errors are eliminated, and reflection errors are significantly reduced when using the back-lit view-screen, which makes the reflection stand out prominently.
Digital Image Manipulation software such as Gimp and Photoshop, however, allow a wide variety of imaging trickery. And this image HAS been through Gimp! I used Gimp to join the two simultaneous snapshots from separate cameras onto a single canvas and then cropped the top and bottom to trim a neat line there.

Please feel free to analyze this image with manipulation detection software, to verify that there has been none. The only reflections are from the water below, the exposure was shorter than that of images before and after, and double exposure is neither evident nor possible. Both cameras picked up similar patterns, the camera on the right [which is the image on the left, in this crosseye stereograph] was slightly out of focus, and both cameras moved through an arching curve when the shutter was open.

I'm not trying to make a case for the existence of ghosts. If I was, it would be to pass along her message to "quit smoking yesterday."

dsc09014, 2007:08:08 21:50, 3D, California, Anaheim, Disneyland®, Fantasmic!, Mark Twain, Finale

Taken in: United States / California / Anaheim / Anaheim Resort (show map)

Taken on: August 8, 2008

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