Hi everyone, what a fantastic forum with some truly lovely and enlightened people onboard. I'm so pleased and relieved to have found it. I really have a lot I wish to share here, and I hope you can help to me, (and anyone interested,) understand. Alisa you are an inspiring and wonderful host.
I have lots of images, I will upload them with some background information over the next few weeks. I'm building some online images here, http://www.starchie.net. At present its just the locations, and the base images. If you have the eye, then you will see things, if not don't worry, I will try to reveal it all better as I go along.

starchie!

Awesome introduction post! Thank you and WELCOME!

I look forward to all that you will share with us! Sorry if there are any troubles with loading images. I know the webmaster has installed some pretty stringent anti-spam software that can block certain addresses. Also, I tried going to the address link you gave above and it sent me to "heartinternet" (so I couldn't see your pages or images).

I'm anxious to see your photos and to hear your theories and what you've learned!

Start anywhere and say anything. We'll have a great time sharing and figuring it all out...

Welcome Starchie!!!

I'm so glad to see that you've joined Alisa's forums.

Alisa is very helpful and insightful in helping one to find understanding and meaning of the curious aspects life reveals to us from time-to-time.

I like your website. You're pictures are lovely and very intriguing. I look forward to reading and seeing your post of nature folks and spirited beings.

Wishing you a wondrous rest of the week end!
Dawn

Apologies as the link to my online albums isn't working too well. I think its the hosting side, (or the gremlin censorship has started aleady!) and I'll try to get it fixed over the coming week. An alternate for the time being is www.starchie.com, however I don't want to use a .com commercial prefix as there will be absolutely nothing at all commercial about it.
Alisha I'm able to post using another computer, unfortunately all my images are on the other one, so I will transfer it across and I'll show what I have shortly.
Hi back to Dawn & Alisha, I'm pleased to make your aquaintance, and you too have a great weekend, what's left of it.
Starchie

Sorry Alisa, I spelled your name incorrectly in the last post and wasn't able to edit it. I have a friend with that name and i'm used to typing it, apologies I won't do it again, promise!

I have some, (by no means all,) of my spirit and entity interpretations here on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/8078157@N08/ please feel free to browse them if you want a sneak preview. I haven't got descriptions for them all yet but I'm working on it, I'll will post the ones most important to me, with my reasonings over the next few weeks.
Starchie

No worries about the name, but thanks. And I was able to access your photos through your starchie.net site afterall. Now I will have a look at some of your interpretations on the new link. I also saw in one of your photos what I have been finding in some of my photos...black dot(s) in the sky that when enlarged highly resemble UFOs ( UFO in my Photo). Your photo P9182392.JPG.

Wow, those photos are awesome! I really enjoyed the crops you have where it is just the faces in the center as I could hone right in on them easily that way. I particularly resonated with Waterdjinn7. I saw multiple aspects of this entity or group.

I am starting to tune into your vision. It was the same for me with Chris when I first started viewing her photos. I had to ripen to her vision. Then after quite some time of viewing her photos, it was like someone turned on the contrast and crisper button for me and many of them just came to life and I wondered how I didn't see them before immediately.

But then in my own photos, I see my entities that I am apparently attuned to, and they pop right out at me. And when I show my photos to others without highlighting what I see, it surprises me to realize that others aren't seeing it at all until I point it out. I have reason to believe that only about 25% of people interested in looking into "spirit" photos can see these hidden spirit images even when highlighted based on my website statistics.

As you have pointed out before, generally people need to have a form of "vision" to see these things clearly at all even when they are highlighted.

But as we move forward with our visions, it raises the abilities of the whole, or so I believe.

Oh, and I really enjoyed the leprechaun photo and your various edits of it!

Alisa your insight about tuning into the different visions is spot on. I've gotten frustrated in the past that people are unable to see the things that I see. However your vision or sight needs to be developed and exercised in order to work better and it improves all the time. The process for me is to relax, and not try to hard to see things conventionally. I also think of it as a visual present that will be rewarding once opened, and I do sometimes ask aloud "show me, or please help me to see". The other point that you touch on is contrast, there seems to be a much tighter band-with of color for the entities, that makes it harder for us to see, its also necessary to train your vision to see much more subtle differences in color and light and shade to define their shapes, but it is possible, and it takes practice. Once you get that high-definition contrast to your vision, they pop right out in so much clarity, and I'm pleased to say I've been able to tune into most of your images and the others images pretty much straight away. They are magnificent, but more on that later. I'm pleased you see my Leprechaun, its my favorite, I'll post it in a new thread if you don't mind to explain my vision and rationale, what clinched it for me was it seems to be carrying, and its location. It was in a lovely ancient woodland that has been managed as coppice's for many centuries and is comprised of semi-natural oak and ash, and there were faery-rings on the ground close by. Where-else would you expect to find a Leprechaun? Sometimes what I find fits so perfectly history and legend that I'm gob-smacked!
starchie

Thanks for the stimulating conversation about this topic, Starchie. I learn so much from these sort of chats, and it's prompting so many realizations for me and weaving more threads in the fabric of my reality.

I have experienced frustration as well, but mostly it distresses me when people send me images very precious and clear to them that they are very passionate about and I can't see it. I finally came to realize that I should accept that the image is there whether I can see it or not, knowing that these people are seeing images similarly to the way I see them. But I am just not yet attuned to their vision.

I've had some people send me photos with images they see that have their deceased family members, and since I don't have any connection or physical idea of what to hone in on, I often can't see them. And sometimes I think the images might be just highly personalized. I believe there is generally more than one image to be seen in a spirit photo or spirit concentration. I will frequently go back on spirit images I found and highlighted a year before and see new things in it. I guess it is a ripening of sight, as you say, as well as a relevance to current thoughts and circumstances.

When you said you asked aloud to be shown the image, I grinned. Chris told me this back when I first met her. So I began using the technique and then forgot about it. Must remember to ask more frequently (thanks for the hint)! And I also see it as a gift, or like a treasure hunt. A few others who indulge in photographic spirit seeing have said the same to me.

And I agree, that to relax and not see things conventionally is a basic way to "see". The more I relax my "ideas" about what the lines are in the photo (background, or foreground, or trees, etc.) and just let the lines and shapes express themselves, it is as if I am no longer seeing 3-D, but multi-D. You are truly bringing out many details of this process by discussing this with me.

I also am prompted to mention that while it is a skill that definitely must be honed, as you said, I think there are some innate factors involved. I agree with you that "seeing" entails noticing even finer nuances of detail/colours. I have always been so detail oriented that it is almost inhibiting. Patterns and wallpapers comprise my earliest babyhood memories and held great fascination for me. They seemed to transport me in some way as I lay in cribs or sat in high-chairs whether at home or nursery. Then growing up I recall this fabric Raggedy Ann wall-hanging next to my bed. I would stare at the fabric of her dress each night. And I would see these little beings with large heads in the pattern. It took me years to realize that the little beings were really mice sitting on balls, but the fabric had been applied with the pattern upside down so the ball became a head and the mouse's ears became its feet. I believe I was born with a propensity to focus on detail and to see alternate images in patterns.

This further reminds me of memories from when I was an infant, and now tying them in to what I am learning about reality. For instance, I used to be terrified of the "man in the moon". Though I can't recall what I saw that made me complain of this fear frequently at 2 and 3 years old. But it was something about night time and the moon. I also would come up with tidbits of information and when my Dad would ask how I knew that, I'd say my A-bird told me. This idea became meaningful to me when I first found spirit a few years ago, but even more so now that I have met a spirit guide of mine that has wings. And Green Man/Thoth who is a moon god. Hmmm. It actually goes much deeper, but I'll leave it at this as I'm wandering off topic.

I'm glad you see many of my images with relative ease. Your vision is supple. And I also love your leprechaun capture. He is quite detailed and accurate to the surroundings and image of a leprechaun! I'll be really looking forward to your discussion on it. Open as many threads as you like. Do it all your way, please! I'll be happy to learn about and discuss with you whatever you wish to share.