THE NIGHTLY HUNT IS ON

I`m sometimes asked how I capture  my night-time `ectos` or skotographs. There was nothing more simple in the beginning. I just aimed my digital camera out into the darkness and clicked.  But to put it technically: infra-red function of a camera is needed. Cameras are capable of recording the IR part of the spectrum beyond which the eye can see.   I focus on the atmosphere around the camera as I press the shutter button halfway down and the indicator light on the screen starts to flash green.  Then a beeping sound indicates that it`s stopped flashing and remains lit.  I look into the darkneww ahead of the camera, talking and inviting `them` to show themselves (or some other subject that I may mention) on screen. Now I`m waiting for the self-timer lamp on the camera back to start flashing red.  It seems then that the ectos stream from this red light.  Often then I will physically see a white fluttering ecto somewhere in the front of the camera and I often see a red fluttering ON the screen also.  That is when I snap and collect them.  I can only see a rough shape because they move very quickly.  I`ve learned to have ISO set at 100 or 200 and have the Program mode.   `They` like the cold, rainy weather, but my first capture was on October 12, 2009 when the weather was fairly warm. Sometimes I open my door and immediately can sense them, as if the very air was highly charged