Ooooo! More great highlighting. It is interesting about the shields, and I think you are right to conjecture about it. That's how we figure it out. So often nature spirits are holding tools and such. I have seen them holding swords before, so shields make a lot of sense. And as you said, it could well be a device (a cloaking device)? I'm always interested to hear more about this and what you think it means. Trust your instincts. The story must unfold first and then any misinterpretations can be worked out afterward. Let it flow. (I though Green Man was a ghost at first and exploring it even from that angle opened up more and more avenues and honed my understanding).

I have learned much from your visions and your conjecture about them.

I set up this forum so I could present my beliefs and findings and others could present theirs in a positive manner without skepticism because I know that all things are possible. So I want to explore all possibilities rather than being concerned with what is not possible.

I have come to more and more believe that seeing spirit is basically scrying - gazing into a surface to aid clairvoyance. And in essence, you need to have some clairvoyant abilities to see these and other relevant images in photos and other surfaces. Many of us see these same things in the surface of windows, water, woodgrain, wallpaper, etc. The cool thing about scrying with photos is that you can share what you are seeing and how you see it with others by highlighting the photo. The photo gives you the background and patterns to aid clairvoyance in the same way that the other surfaces do. Whether the things are actually right there in the photo, I'm not sure. But the images are real and they often seem to be related to the place in which they appear. But not always.

As another angle, I read an experience of a person who had never had a clairvoyant experience until one day when "spacing out" on a door and saw patterns emerging in the woodgrain that relayed the story of a crime that was committed and how it was done, which this person later verified.

I feel that everyone has a degree of clairvoyance, but like any ability, some people have more aptitude than others. It can be built up like a muscle if a person is interested in it. And to be interested in it, a person has to have some belief that it is possible to see in the first place. The more they believe it is possible, the more their mind will open up and allow the ability to be expressed. Just like athletics, if you don't think you are in any way capable of pole vaulting, you are much less likely to be able to do it. You know? By the same token, some people try it and on the first shot they succeed. Even some people who don't think they can will succeed once they try. But it always helps to be positive and open-minded in all things and to be able to envision yourself doing it successfully.

But you are right about blocking. I had a great "lesson" one evening that explained to me further why some people can see spirit and others cannot. I will have do a separate post about it.

Some people will probably never be able to see, but plenty will. So just keep putting your stuff out there, first and foremost to aid yourself, to keep the juices flowing and honing your own skill. And hey, if one of your photos happens to be the thing that turns even one more person on because they can see your vision and it opens their mind and makes their life better, then that is a added bonus. And know that I am always here to give you feedback, and I benefit from and enjoy your visions and insight.