Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

Aug 25

Posted by

Picture of a rainbow in high level cirrus

None of the above. And it isn’t a UFO, either.

I took this photo an hour or two after sunrise. The sun is quite a way to the left of this image. What’s happened is that sunlight has been reflected and refracted within the ice crystals of the high level cirrus cloud, producing a blindingly white object with a halo of colour.

No wonder primitive people were superstitious.

Feel free to copy – provided you recognise my copyright and attribute the photo to me.

 

About these ads

About Greta van der Rol

I'm an author of fast-paced, action-adventure novels, mainly space opera - although I've been known to write in other genres. I live not far from the coast in Queensland, Australia and enjoy photography and cooking when I'm not bent over the computer. I have a degree in history and a background in building information systems, both of which go a long way toward helping me in my writing endeavours.

Posted on 25 August 2012, in Photography and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.

  1. MonaKarel | 25 August 2012 at 1:15 pm

    Wonderful skies, one of the joys of being away from the cities

    Reply
  2. fuonlyknew | 25 August 2012 at 1:27 pm

    Simply Beautiful, Greta:)

    Reply
  3. Doug (@AllanDouglasDgn) | 25 August 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Beautiful shot and an interesting effect. Thanks for sharing, Greta!

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: