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Fairies DO Existby ~sixty8doors

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I was fascinated by the book "The Coming of the Fairies" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: [link] about two teenage girls in Yorkshire, England who produced photographs they had taken of fairies in their garden. Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths used a simple camera and were said to be lacking any knowledge of photography or photographic trickery. Although, most prove their photos to be forgeries, I believe in these very special creatures.

Original photo here: [link]

I decided to modernize the photo a bit with my own fairy. As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) once said "We see objects within the limits which make up our colour spectrum, with infinite vibrations, unused by us, on either side of them. If we could conceive a race of beings which were made of matter which threw out shorter or longer vibrations, they would be invisible unless we could tune ourselves up, or tone them down." He goes on to add.. "It is exactly that power of tuning up and adapting itself to other vibrations which constitutes a clairvoyant, and there is nothing scientifically impossible, so far as I can see, in some people seeing that which is invisble to others."

Well said. And almost 100 years later, Sir Doyles words still hold true.

*Forestina-Fotos Jan 14, 2006

Love it!

~DreaEleanora Sep 26, 2005

i too am fond of sir arthur conan doyles fae book. the little girls had their heart in the right place and it seems you do as well! i love this piece. did you photograph someone and then faerie-ize them? how was your fae created?

nonetheless...i love how she loks translucent and im sure it was difficult to maintain the picture quality on the old part of the photograph.

well done! :snaps for you:

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