Weird

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So, at the symposium today I was taking pictures of the items brought by the guest of honor. (See my other wrightup: http://fbhjr.livejournal.com/64861.html)
Jeff, who runs the event asked me to take as many good pictures of them as I could so he could use some in the center’s news letter.

So, these are the three swords the guest of honor brought. Nice, old, nothing too out of the ordinary.
The one at the top is big. But, I didn’t notice anything special.

So, when I took this picture, I was surprised to see glowing shapes on the blade of the sword.

Yes, with a flash, the etching right under the rust layer glow.
They are very hard to see without the flash. If you lean over the sword and squint at it, you can see them.
So, gold etching under a layer of rust reacts to a flash.

But, when I first looked down at the display on the camera, my first thought was “why are there shapes there the camera sees that I can’t?”
It was spooky.
Cool, but spooky.