Loch Ness Monster Pictures

 

• Loch Ness Monster pictures in the 1930's. Several pictures of the Loch Ness Monster were taken in the 1930's, although one was later proved to have been a fake.
• Loch Ness Monster pictures in the 1950's and 1960's. Further pictures were taken in the 1950's and 1960's such as those by Lachlan Stuart, Peter Macnab and Tim Dinsdale.
• Loch Ness Monster pictures Underwater - the 1970's saw significant underwater research using special sonar detection equipment and automatic cameras.
• Recent Loch Ness Monster Pictures - most significant were pictures derived from Gordon Holmes' video film footage in 2007.

Early Loch Ness Monster Pictures

 

The first photographic picture of the Loch Ness Monster was taken near Foyers in November 1933. The photographer was Hugh Gray who was on his way home from church at the time.

 

The photograph shows an object rising out of the water, and despite certain scepticism at the time, no evidence was found that the picture had been tampered with.

 

Another picture of the Loch Ness Monster was taken in April 1934 by Dr Robert Kenneth Wilson. This was to become the most famous photo of the monster and has become known as the "Surgeon's Photograph". Taken near Invermoriston and published in the Daily Mail, this is the only photographic evidence of a head and neck. Other pictures of the Loch Ness Monster have only shown one or more humps, or a disturbance on the surface of the water. Dr Wilson refused to have his name associated with this Loch Ness Monster picture and in 1994, some 60 years later, the photo was indeed revealed to be a hoax.

 

Sir Edward Mortimer Mountain, bart., city dealer and chairman of Eagle Star Insurance also found himself drawn into the mystery. He financed a watch on Loch Ness by 20 men for 10 hours each day from 13 July until mid-August and 21 pictures of the Loch Ness Monster were taken.

 

In 1938 a South African tourist, G E Taylor, filmed three minutes of "something" on 16mm film. The footage is now in private hands and the owner has refused to show it to Loch Ness investigators. An eminent biologist and cryptozoologist declared that the frame was "positive evidence", although it was later shown to be just an ordinary, inanimate object floating in the loch rather than a picture of the Loch Ness Monster.

 

 

Loch Ness Monster Pictures in the 1950's and 1960's

 

In 1951 local wood-cutter, Lachlan Stuart, spotted and captured on film three humps rising out of the water. Unfortunately his camera then jammed, but later investigations again found no evidence of tampering with the photos he had taken. Mr Stuart maintained these were indeed pictures of the Loch Ness Monster.

 

In 1955 Peter Macnab, a Scottish bank manager on holiday at Loch Ness, was taking photographs of Urquhart Castle when he spotted a large, dark object moving across the bay. Hoping for pictures of the Loch Ness Monster and despite having used two different cameras to take pictures of the sight, the images were met with some derision and in disgust Macnab destroyed one of the pictures. The second picture however survived and is of particular interest, as having the castle in the background provides an accurate sense of scale. The length of the object seen in the water is estimated at 50 feet and may well have been a picture of a Loch Ness Monster sighting.

 

 

In the autumn of 1958 a fish farmer from Fort William, R H Cockerell, who had a keen interest in the Loch Ness Monster was out in his canoe with a specially designed camera attached to his helmet when he saw a disturbance on the water. He quickly took a picture of this potential Loch Ness Monster and rowed closer, only to discover that what he had seen was, in reality, a stick. However, when he developed the picture he saw that the "stick" was in fact very large and was producing a wake on the otherwise completely calm loch surface.

 

During the 1960s there was renewed interest in Loch Ness and in Loch Ness Monster pictures, and in 1960 Tim Dinsdale, an aeronautics engineer and dedicated Loch Ness researcher, filmed a hump crossing the water at some speed, changing direction and leaving behind it a powerful wake. In 1962 the film was shown on Panorama and led indirectly to the foundation of the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau (later the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau or LNIB) which ran research studies for ten years using fixed and mobile units around the loch. Many possible Loch Ness Monster pictures were taken. In 1967 one of the mobile units spotted a wake near Dores which was confirmed by the RAF as having been made by "probably an animate object" about seven feet long. Dinsdale's film was digitally enhanced in 1993 for the documentary Loch Ness Discovered and the resulting Loch Ness Monster pictures convinced the computer expert involved that the film was genuine. To this day these Loch Ness Monster pictures are classed as one of the greatest pieces of evidence that the Loch Ness Monster is real.

 

 

Loch Ness Monster Pictures Underwater

 

Interest in monster pictures taken at Loch Ness became worldwide and in the 1970s the American Academy of Applied Science funded research using sonar and automatic cameras. Special cameras were used in order to take Loch Ness Monster pictures underwater. In 1972 a picture of a murky flipper was taken and in 1975, a vague, somewhat blurred image of what may have been a picture of the Loch Ness Monster's head.

 

By contrast possibly the clearest potential picture of the Loch Ness Monster ever taken was by Anthony Shiels in May 1977 during a camping trip near Urquhart Castle. Many enthusiasts immediately claimed this was a genuine picture of the Loch Ness Monster.

 

In 1996 Robert Hutton and his family from Bournemouth were fishing on Loch Ness when they were able to photograph a large, animate object swimming in the loch. Theirs is one of the most intriguing potential pictures of the Loch Ness Monster to date and the family reported seeing large waves hitting the shore of the loch just before the picture was taken. There has been no conclusive evidence of what exactly it was they saw.

 

A year later, in 1997, a local man, Richard White, spotted a long neck and head rising from the water near Urquhart castle. His photograph won him the William Hill "Best Nessie Sighting of the Year" award of £500 and was generally considered a convincing picture of the Loch Ness Monster.

 

 

Recent Loch Ness Monster Pictures

 

In May 2007 Gordon Holmes, a lab technician took a video of what he described as a 14 metre long "jet black thing" moving fairly fast through the water. Adrian Shine, the well-known marine biologist, has called this some of the best footage he has seen.

 

And more recently, in 2009, while browsing Google Earth, security guard Jason Cooke, spotted an image of large unknown object with four legs in the loch. As a picture of the Loch Ness Monster this is well worth viewing and may be the first of many such Loch Ness Monster pictures. Further research is necessary...

 

 

Loch Ness Monster Pictures - 2011

 

Watch this space ... !

 

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