The Weird Light Rays Looked Like Gigantic Spaghetti Strands

Photo date: February 1, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The unaltered photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York, on a day in which it was unusually crowded. We see the incredibly strange effect I call the light metamorphosis, in which light rays rise way up above their source, often bending in strange ways.

The photo was a flash photos with an exposure time of 1/30 of a second, using normal camera settings (no "Night picture" setting).  The camera was held stable while the photo was taken.