I believe in miracles. I believe that there is good in everything – you just have to look for it. So when I heard about Farrell Eaves who accidentally dropped his expensive digital camera into the Pecos River and now takes “magic pictures,” I couldn’t resist meeting him and finding out more. Farrell, a former engineer who has been taking pictures for the last 50 years, was in New Mexico for a photography conference when his tripod fell over and dumped his Nikon CoolPix 990 into the bottom of the muddy river. Heartsick, he fished the camera out, only to find that it sloshed when he shook it. Not a sound you want to hear from your expensive digital equipment, to say the least. For 3 days he and Bruce Dale, the photographer whose conference Farrell was in town for, tried to dry the camera out. They blew it with bottled air, baked it in the hot summer sun, and left it on the gas stove near the pilot light at night. Still the camera lens, viewfinders, and monitor were clouded over. Pretty certain that the camera was ruined, Farrell attempted a last-ditch effort – he tied it to his windshield wiper and drove in New Mexico in the hot sun and dry air. Finally, the lens and viewfinder cleared and Farrell took his first “post-dunking” photographs. But when he looked into the monitor, the colors were streaked and auras appeared every time he moved the camera. It was like he was operating a digital kaleidoscope, a kaleidoscope that not only produced beautiful images, but could capture them digitally for a lifetime of enjoyment. Instead of tossing the camera out and investing in a new one that takes pictures the way a camera ought to, Farrell was entranced by the mysterious and surreal images he saw through his lens. As he says, “Ordinary cameras see what we see; the outer shell or skin of the world around us. My camera and I peel away this covering.” To date, Farrell has shot over 10,000 magical images, each one different, each... http://www.cindycashman.com/memc.html undefined

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