A sun halo, burning through ice crystals in high level cloud. It must be a lot cooler up there than it is down here - we're celebrating a cool day today where the temperature got down to 25 degrees C overnight, and hasn't managed to get up above 30 degrees all day.
On relection, I think the photo might have been improved with something at the centre of the sun - maybe a close up of a large flower? Next time....!
This is amazing. Like a sepia photo but then you see the dark green of the leaves. Great effect. In Calderdale we have had a massive 8deg daytime max and a min of 4deg forecast overnight. I think it will be the best mothing night of the year so far. Win
ReplyDeleteWow - Your fast Win - I've only just finished posting! I'm still despairing about the quality of the pics on Blogger - for example, this image has little blobs and wavy distortion all over it - these are not on the original. Fed up of Htlm!
ReplyDeleteHmm... without the original it is difficult to compare but cant see blobs or wavy lines on my screen. Just an amazing image. Does this phenomenon occur over here. I have seen 1) a rainbow round the sun (sort of) and 2) a halo round the moon (vert impressive). Bumper catch of moths last night, see Calderdale moths blog in a few hrs
ReplyDeleteWonderful, never seen a halo effect like that. There is often lovely sky in your pics, especially clouds.
ReplyDeleteOK, sorry for not looking at your site before. Couldn't resist commenting on this one. Was the halo a portent of wet and cold weather, like in the UK????
ReplyDeleteHi Bruce - Not sure if anyone will pick up this comment now - seems a long time ago I took this! Answer is no! The ice is so high up in the atmosphere that it odesn't seem to have any effect on weather down here. Saw one round the moon a week ago - but didn't have a tripod with me, so no point even trying to catch it!
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