Reporter Andy Tristem
AN ARTIST believes he has discovered a bizarre phenomenon while on holiday in India.
Alex Prowse, who runs the Cascade Gallery, in Blomfield Road, Little Venice, took hundreds of photos over Christmas and the New Year while on holiday with his wife,
Janet, in a remote part of south India.
But when the photos were developed Alex was shocked to find hundreds of "morphs" on the pictures.
The unexplained blobs have continued to appear on photos taken by Alex in the remote Indian region of Andhra Pradesh and in Little Venice.
Alex said: "When we returned to Madras and had the photographs developed we thought the camera was broken.
But we have shown them to a professional photographer who had absolutely no explanation."
Alex refuses to claim that the morphs are supernatural.
"It is clear that we have found something major although we cannot be sure exactly what it is. The morphs seem to be some form of energy form."
Alex used a digital camera in India and has since captured the morphs on two more digital cameras and a traditional camera.
He said that each time a photograph is taken "a kind of sparkling" takes place around the camera.
A "healer" who visited the Cascade Gallery told Alex and Janet that the morphs were similar to supernatural "orbs" that have appeared in spiritualist magazines.
The husband and wife were further shocked when the morphs appeared on photos taken by friends.
Leo McNeir, author of Death in Little Venice, and underwater photographer Terry Dormer both contacted Alex in astonishment after discovering morphs on photographs
they had taken while in the Cascade Gallery.
One of the Ham&High Series' photographers, Nigel Sutton, said: "The images are exactly what you get from the flashback you get in a heavy rain storm
or if it is snowing when you use flash.
"In theory the same could happen in a sandstorm although he (Alex) assures me they were taken on a clear day. You therefore have to assume that
it is some sort of weird phenomenon."
andy.tristem@hamhigh.co.uk