Atmospheric Optics
Featured Work
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The Gift by Linda Sannuti
circumhorizon arc. / its been enhanced in PS! / Another one I had..was so lucky to see it! Featured in Atmospheric Optics group! / Thank you!!
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Clouds n Rainbow by redhawk
This rainbow happened just hours ago from my back yard to the east. Photo enhanced in Photoshop. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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Mount Dandenong, Melbourne, Victoria. by Ern Mainka
Mount Dandenong, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. © Ern Mainka
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Anti-crepuscular rays by Jonicool
I was so excited to see these for the first time last night! / These are not from the sun set, but from the opposite side, at sunset. / (When you put your back to the sunset) / Check out this website here / to find out more… /
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Sun halo near Kisoro, Uganda by Rosie Appleton
My first ever halo that I can remember seeing and definately the first one I ever photographed!
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Iridescent Clouds ~ Alaska Brilliant Skies ~ Diffraction and Prismatic Colours by Sharon Mau
Iridescent Clouds, Diffraction and Prismatic Colours ~ Atmospheric Optics / Imaged near Tok Alaska in the beautiful Tanana River Valley Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Universewide Featured Art 06 June 2009 Abstract Digital Art and Writing / Featured Art 03 June 2009 Atmospheric Optics / “Iridescence in clouds most often occurs close to the sun. It is best seen when the sun is hidden. When parts of clouds are thin and have similar size droplets, diffraction can make them shine with colours like a corona. In fact, the colours are essentially corona fragments. The effect is called cloud iridescence or irisation, terms derived from Iris the Greek personification of the rainbow. The usually delicate colours can be in almost random patches or bands at cloud edges. They are only organised into coronal rings when the droplet size is uniform right across the cloud. The bands and colours change or come and go as the cloud evolves. They occur most often in altocumulus, cirrocumulus and especially in lenticular clouds. Iridescence is seen mostly when part of a cloud is forming because then all the droplets have a similar history and consequently have a similar size. Sometimes iridescence may be seen far from the sun but is most frequently near to it.” Information Source: Atmospheric Optics – Iridescent Clouds Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / Shooting Date/Time 13 September 2007 18:12:22 / Tv 1/500 Av 20.0 Exposure Compensation 0 / Curves White Balance Adjustment in Post Processing / ISO 125 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM / Focal Length 135.0 mm
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Sun Pillar ~ Spirit of Delight ~ Alaska Sunset by Sharon Mau
Sun Pillar ~ Spirit of Delight ~ Alaska Sunset Copyright © Sharon Mau / All Rights Reserved Atmospheric optics and brilliant skies of Alaska Featured Art 08 December 2008 Both Sides Now / Featured Art 03 June 2009 Atmospheric Optics Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Over the Rainbow by Judy Yanke Fritzges
Somewhere over the rainbow / Skies are blue / And the dreams that you dare to dream / Really do come true Photo taken in Duck, North Carolina. Camera: Nikon D80 Adjustments: Photoshop Elements
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S.S Maheno by Ben Messina
I was lucky enough to be able to camp close enough to the Maheno shipwreck that I could visit it at times when the tides make it hard to get around on Fraser Island. This image is captured at sunset at sunset under a full moon.
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a low bow... by dinghysailor1
Such an unusual sight as we came to a dip in the lovely border countryside late one afternoon . The hollow in the terrain was covered in what looked like a flattened dome of rainbow colours – imagine 3 bubblers joy…! jen whyte and heather croft will have great captures too…! here is heathers’ sideways rainbow view of the same…with heaps more detail… and jens Aura …after the rain where you can see a glimpe of sunlight…. Reading links from the atmospheric optics site it looks as if it could be a ‘low’ (rain)bow … linked to the sun (erm…what sun…teehee) being high in the sky…. ;))
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The Day After Tomorrow by Alexandros Isaias
Athens, Greece 2007
Recent Work
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Abstraction Over Reality by DeeprBlue
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. / ~Robert Brault
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Melbourne, Victoria. by Ern Mainka
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. / (2003) / © Ern Mainka
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Parhelia (Sundog) by Helen Simpson
Sundog captured over the wind farm north of Burra.
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Iridescent Clouds by Ern Mainka
Iridescent Clouds / Nikon F3, 300mm lens, Fuji Velvia film. / © Ern Mainka
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Iridescent by Australis
April 2004
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Intelligent Design by Tim&Paria Sauls
Taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX12. This is our favorite picture!
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Angelic Moon by Rikki Pool
The moon shone brightly last night creating a nice halo around it at midnight. Best Viewed LARGE!!!!!!
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From End To End by Visual Inspirations
BEST VIEWED LARGER / FEATURED FEB. 20TH 09 IN EVERYDAY LIFE / FEATURED FEB. 20TH IN POSTCARD STYLE / FEATURED FEB. 23RD 09 IN RURAL AROUND THE GLOBE / FEATURED FEB. 24TH 09 IN FOR THE LOVE OF JESUS / . / I captured this rainbow this weekend that was in our back yard that I had to share with you all!! I have always seen rainbows, but never from end to end! / Taken with my Canon Power Shot S3 IS in Clayton, CA / I had to do a panaramic view because I couldn’t get the whole thing in one frame.. it was right there! / Thanks to Anibal who retouched this image and took the seems out for me.. Rainbows appear after mighty storms, / When things look their very worst, / Just when the skies are darkest grey, / Look for the rainbow first. / / The rainbow is a sign of God’s promise, / That He will guide us through any storm, / That He will see us through all our troubles, / No matter what their form. / / When you feel battered by life’s storms, / And you are filled with doubt and dismay; / Just remember God’s rainbow is coming—- / It’s only a prayer away. “Old Print Factory Inc.”
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Rainbow over Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Australia. by Ern Mainka
Rainbow over Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Australia. / Nikon F3, 300mm lens, Fuji Velvia film. / © Ern Mainka
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Lunar Rainbow by Adam Gormley
The mixture between a chilly night, with lots of high atmosphere ice crystals, and a bright moon, cause this rainbow-like ring around the moon. As like a ground or rain rainbow, light is getting reflected at different angles, causing the colours. Here, the same thing happens with the ice crystals, they reflect the already reflected sun light from the moon into our eyes. A Moon Ring, or Moon Halo as also known, will always be the same size, 22 degrees across the sky, and will be 44 x the size of the moon. Canon 50D, 10mm, 77 second exposure.. Available Large, and definately best viewed large!
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Dove Lake Rainbow by traveller
Taken in the Cradle Mountain N. P. in Tasmania. Went here to photgraph Cradle Mountain but the weather made that impossible (its hiding in the low clouds),however I think this fleeting rainbow made up for it to a degree. This was the only shot of the rainbow that was not spoiled by rain drops all over the lens!- / Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-135mm lens.
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For the display of photographic works that feature the less common atmospheric optical phenomena (see examples listed in the guidelines) that we experience on Earth and forums for discussion of the subject.
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