Q. While on it, a few years ago we took some pictures by a bris and the shemos on the omud came out in some of the pictures, but you can only see them when the picture is placed by a strong light or the sun. On another picture you can only read the full name if you see it in an angle. Are those Shaimos?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that if the name can be read under what would be considered normal conditions erasing it would involve the biblical prohibition of “you shall not do so to Hashem your G-d”. However, see prior question, if a name written without the intention of it becoming holy carries a biblical or rabbinical prohibition. Although there may not be a biblical prohibition involved. The name still has to be kept with the proper kedusha and disposed off as standard shemos.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a