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| Red Skies and Rainbows |
What more can I say? Dramatic skylines transfix me, and these certainly were very dramatic, I saw them walking to college the other morning :)
Beauty is in everything, you just have to open your eyes and look at it!
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You're a really great photographer. The first time I saw this blog I just skipped over but liked the photos. I came back for another look and took the time to read. It's only then that I realised that they are your own work :O
ReplyDelete:) Thankyou :) Never thought of myself as a photographer really, I just take things an dhope they turn out okay :D hehe but thankyou :D x
ReplyDeleteI've just had another look. There is so much interest in these photos. The one with the red sky and rainbow is a real paradox. To see a rainbow, the light source needs to be on the same side of the phenomena as the observer. Usually (since the sun is the light source) this means that the sun is behind the observer.
ReplyDeleteTo see a red sky The sun would usually be close to the Horizon (or even below it) on the far side of the phenomon. ie, in front of the observer.
From this conflicting evidence, I can only assume there is something very special going on here.
One possibility is that the light source producing the rainbow is not the DIRECT sunlight, but a strong reflection of it from some large reflective mass. This is also evident from the distortion of the rainbow. (notice how the lower limb is much narrower than the higher region).
Furthermore, you can see that the blue region of the spectrum appears to be absent from the rainbow. This would also be explained by the reflection theory, since the light being reflected would come from that red sky.
So the question remains, what could it be that is reflecting so brightly that it is able to produce a visible rainbow.
My first thought is the surface of a lake but the geometry makes this impossible as the light needs to be reflected back away from the observer. (I could perhaps explain better with diagrams). The only thing that would fit the bill would be an inclined plain of something very reflective. I can't, for the life of me, think what that could be.
Ah one final idea comes to mind. Would this have been taken when the Ash cloud from Iceland was grounding all flights in the UK? That caused some amazing red skys. I never saw a rainbow in it though.
This is interesting :) Because I dont know much about things like light and reflections ect to be honest, but until that day id never seen a rainbow in a red sky either. The photo was taken a few weeks ago in the morning on my way to college, so not when the ash cloud from iceland was there, but you mention reflections from water? The houses that you can see slightly, one of them is right next to a lake so there is a possibility that it could be that. If it isn't, then as you say it's something special :) x
ReplyDeleteOK. I've had a think and have now come to a conclusion. The redness in the sky is produced by turbidity in the atmosphere above the lake that is being illuminated by the reflection of the sun upon the surface of it.
ReplyDeleteTaking a date of 20th October and your general location, and a time of approximately 8:30 am BST (7:30 GMT) I find that the sun would have been shining from a direction of 115 degrees and would have been just 6 degrees above the horizon.
Taking all this into account the point about which that rainbow is centred would be on a bearing of 295 degrees from the observer (just 15 degrees north of due West). Since your picture is focused on the right hand limb of the rainbow (rather than the point at it's centre) your camera would have been oriented considerably closer to the northerly direction.
What I would ask you to do, is find those houses on google maps (or something similar) and then look at your vantage point (from where you took this photo) I am going to stick my neck out and say you were facing somewhere near or around due north. Am I close?