Featured Work
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Misty Morning by Stefan Trenker
taken along the river Thaya in Lower Austria close to the Czech border
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Aurora Australis by Ern Mainka
Aurora Australis (or Southern Aurora) March 1990, from Queenscliff Pier, Victoria, Australia. / This aurora appeared out of the darkness unexpectedly just before driving back to Melbourne after a days outing. It’s sudden appearance grew and peaked in brightness in less than a minute and gradually diminished over about 10-15 minutes. / Nikon F3, Fuji RDP film. / © Ern Mainka
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sunburst by amber30
caught this shot while driving over cabot trail one day
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THE DOUBLE RAINBOW by Charlene Aycock
TAKEN AUGUST 31ST, 2007 HECK OF A STORM CAME THROUGH HERE TODAY.
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Brocken Spectre and Glory by Ern Mainka
Brocken Spectre and Glory 1/6/2007 near Yarra Glen, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. © Copyright Ern Mainka / - Brocken Spectre and Glory ....The Brocken Spectre is the three dimensional shadow at the centre. It is dark air extending from the person/photographer all the way into the distance. Brocken shadows look triangular and large because of this. ....Glories (similar looking to a rainbow) form by diffraction, reflection and refraction of sunlight through water/mist droplets. Their formation involves surface waves as well as internal reflections. The number of rings and their angular extent is a function of the size distribution of the water droplets that compose clouds. With larger droplets the rings are more tightly packed. The clearer the colors appear in the fringes, the tighter the size distribution of the droplets (closer to one single size). Glories are polarized radially in the outer color fringes but tangentially in the center. / - / Brocken Spectre / A Brocken spectre (German Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre is the apparently enormously magnified shadow of an observer, when the Sun is low, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds. If the observer is in an aeroplane, the shadow of the aeroplane is cast. The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend. The spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region. The ‘Spectre’ appears when the sun shines from behind a climber who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist. The light projects the climber’s shadow forward through the mist, often in an odd triangular shape due to perspective. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges his shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds. The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The ghost can appear to move (sometimes quite suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer. The head of the figure is often surrounded by the glowing halo-like rings of a glory (Heiligenschein), rings of coloured light that appear directly opposite the sun when sunlight is reflected by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets. / - / More images
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Sundog / Parhelion by Ern Mainka
A close up of a Sundog (or Parhelion), sometimes called a Mock Sun. / Melbourne, Australia. / Nikon F3, 300mm lens, Fuji Velvia film. / © Ern Mainka
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Winter Colours by studiomunch
It’s been a cold, dark, rainy day but this was a little brightener! Taken just outside the village of Llanrhaedr, near Denbigh in North Wales. / The mid tones have been darkened slightly and there’s a little noise reduction.
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Ice Pillars by Robert Former
An interesting optical effect observed one SERIOUSLY cold night in Feb of 2007. / The pillars are caused by the town nearly five miles (8km) away. / What was cool was the airport beacon to the west of this view, but it’s a little hard to capture the effect in a still. / 16 Sec / f/5.0 / ISO 400 / Olympus C5050z
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Loch Lomond by Roddy Atkinson
Loch Lomond Song / There are many interpretations of this song, the most common is that two of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s men were captured and left behind in Carlisle after the failed rising of 1745. One of the young soldiers was to be executed, the other released. The Spirit of the dead soldier travelling by the ‘low road’ would reach Scotland before his comrade, who would be struggling along the actual road over high, rugged country. By yon bonnie banks / And by yon bonnie braes, / Where the sun shines bright / On Loch Lomond / Oh we twa ha’e pass’d / sae mony blithesome days, / On the bonnie, bonnie banks / O’ Loch Lomond. Oh ye’ll tak’ the high road / and I’ll tak’ the low road, / An’ I’ll be in Scotland before ye’, / But wae is my heart until we meet again / On the Bonnie, bonnie banks / O’ Loch Lomond. I mind where we parted / In yon shady glen / On the steep, steep side / O’ Ben Lomon’ / Where in purple hue / The highland hills we view / And the morn shines out / Frae the gloamin’ Oh ye’ll tak’ the high road / and I’ll tak’ the low road, / An’ I’ll be in gloaming before ye’, / But wae is my heart until we meet again / On the Bonnie, bonnie banks / O’ Loch Lomond. The wee bird may sing / An’ the wild flowers spring; / An’ in sunshine the waters are sleepin’ / But the broken heart / It sees nae second spring, / And the world does na ken / How we’re greetin’ Oh ye’ll tak’ the high road / and I’ll tak’ the low road, / An’ I’ll be in greeting before ye’, / But wae is my heart until we meet again / On the Bonnie, bonnie banks / O’ Loch Lomond.
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Winters Prism by velveteagle
The Wife and I were driving towards a very big lake during a hard frozen landscape in the dead of winter. There was a cloud of frozen crystals coming up from the lake and the light was painting for us on the ice crystals. I would have loved to make the colors deeper on the prism but it would take away from the sky..
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Heavenly Night by Rikki Pool
Whilst taking a photo of the moon this cloud formation went overhead and created a “Halo” effect. If you look carefully, you can actually see an angel shape. No photoshop applied except for sharpening.
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Aurora on canvas by PigleT
Taken in January 2005, just south of Perth, Scotland. I looked out the window here late one evening to see a “cloud” of luminous green oriented downwards – “that’s no cloud!” and 5mins later I was a couple of miles away in the middle of nowhere on the road south of Moncrieffe Hill, admiring the pretty greens and reds :)
Recent Work
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Pot of gold by Lois Romer
Rainbow over Kuching. My plane was delayed for 15 minutes whilst a sudden heavy storm occured, then as we took of there was the rainbow.
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Rainbow Hill by Kristina Kitchingman
This was taken in the hills between Mirboo North and Yarragon. / whilst on a day out to visit my dad.
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A shooting ...Rainbow ! by Kristina Kitchingman
This was taken on our way home from a trip to Melbourne. / We went up a very steep hill, as i was commenting on the storm that was impending, the rainbow seemed to shoot out of the sky. / as we went further up the hill and the sun started setting you could see the shadow of the hill impacting on the rainbow, quite a strange effect to see.
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Double Rainbow Foxen Canyon by Cathy Gregg
After chasing this rainbow for more than an hour it finally turned double! Taken just outside of a small town called Los Olivos, California in the Santa Ynez Valley. This town became popular due to the movie Sideways. This area has more beauty than just wine. Foxen Canyon was named after Captain Benjamin Foxen of the California Bear Flag Republic.
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Old Barn Rainbow by Cathy Gregg
Spotted this on the road while chasing a storm. Slammed on my breaks and aligned the rainbow over the barn. It was a beautiful sight. Taken in the Central Coast of California.
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Double Rainbow Guadalupe by Cathy Gregg
After a huge downpour the sun broke out and presented me a double rainbow. I didn’t have time to find the perfect spot to take the photo as the clouds were moving very quickly. This was taken at the entrance to Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve (which was closed due to flooding) in Guadalupe, California.
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rainbow cloud 11 by BrendaKLoveless
Having seen many sundogs, I was at a loss as to what this should be called…except beautiful. The contrast was increased somewhat to make it more visible as it was really subtle. This occurred around mid-day and appeared as a horizontal band of color, not part of a halo or arch of any length. It was captured in the area of Denton, Texas with a ground temperature of approximately 74 degrees F. on May 4, 2008.
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Split Point Lighthouse - Halo 1 by Richard Heath
The sky was just right for this silhouette, with a halo around the sun.
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And On The Thirteenth Day ... by Peter Hill
Sky above University of Sydney 26 April 2008 – the first clear day after 12 days straight of rain. The only processing done (Photoshop CS2) was to firstly sharpen the image, then some spot healing of dirt specks, and then I equalised it. The sun is directly to the right of frame.
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left Sundog 4-23-08 am by Roslyn Lunetta
left sundog in the am on 4-23-08 in southern new hampshire
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