Perhaps if I stare at it long enough!

  While cleaning the other day, I found a bunch of those little disposable cameras that my daughter used on school trips and such.  (This was back before every kid had a phone with a camera.)  She had taken tons of pictures then and later during college.  The cameras had gotten shoved in a box and the film never was developed.  Mark took the cameras to the department store for developing so we could see just what was on the film.  Not much.  There were lots of photographs of kids doing goofy poses and some of a Christmas here about a decade ago. At the time, the acts probably seemed to be grand enough to be recorded for posterity but now seem sort of silly.  I am not sure my daughter would ever recognize some of the folks in the pictures and, well to be honest, some are better out of her life.  She has come a long way since that time and it is one of those "let bygones be bygones" type thing.  Still there were a couple of pictures that interested me..or at least the artist in me!

   Three of the photographs (by most standards) would be rated as failures.  Something definitely had gone wrong while the picture was being taken.  Either the lighting was bad, there was a great amount of movement or perhaps, being cheap cameras, there was a glitch in the film.  Who knows?  Anyway, it was these three that caught my interest. They are fascinating!

  Back around the same time that these photographs were taken, there was also this craze involving "Magic Eye" pictures.  These were sort of optical illusion prints that, at first glance, seemed to be just a page filled with dots or some other repeating pattern.  If stared at long enough and in just the right way, a 3-D image would suddenly loom out of the picture.  The three photographs remind me of those fanciful patterns.  No, I do not see any 3-D images jumping out at me but still all of those tiny dots of color should make up something! The top two seem similar but the first one has some weird, white splotches and a red dot while the second one has a streak across the bottom.  The last one seems at least a bit different! I have decided that these three photographs are quite priceless! No, not one of the photographs amount to any value monetarily but the cost of developing film these days is outrageous!  Mark and I are now the proud owners of almost $90 worth of useless, worthless and even unexplained photographs. Wow!  Perhaps if I stare at them long enough...maybe?  At least they are colorful!