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Speaking as a photographer, I think what you have here is the perennially troublesome 'flare' effect, where light is bouncing around inside the camera lens, causing all manner of irritating light patches over the picture; due mainly to the camera being pointed directly at the light source. For a full explanation:

http://www.vanwalree.com/optics/flare.html

Sorry to be a bore . . .

PS: Although I do believe scientists got images of an aura around the King Stone (Rollrights) back in the late '70's/early '80's. They would have probably used infra-red or U/V imaging. I do remember reading that it had a vague pinkish aura winding round it like a snake or something similar.

Unfortunately, I doubt very much that conventional film would record anything like that, but there's always an exception. It would be *extraordinarily* rare, though, I would imagine.

I bought this camera in the *Red* Cross shop for £15 - it had three things that needed repairing.

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/image.php?image_id=12957

I said once that it would take me a year to learn how to take decent pictures with it. About half the way through. It's got a vertical shutter that kind-of goes - clang !

any idea if theres a photo of the aura knocking about? I remember reading about that in Needles of Stone.

You can have some fun with lens flare though, this one was deliberate-

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/image.php?image_id=5404

got a nice one of Castlerigg on the wall behind me.

-Chris