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More from the foggy day at Picnic Point
January 20, 2013
In case you noticed the title and wondered, "sunbreaks" is really a thing. In Seattle, when it's cloudy all the time in the winter and it rains and drizzles and is misty a lot, we can go days and weeks without seeing the sun. It isn't dark, it's just so cloudy that the light is diffused, and everything looks gray. Sometimes the clouds part for a minute or two, and the sun shines through, and then the clouds slam back together again. That's called "sunbreaks." It's when the sun breaks through the clouds. The weather people on the local news will say, "Cloudy today with a chance of sunbreaks," and that's a serious weather forecast that provides useful information.
FaeMike will back me up on this!
Living in that sort of climate, the tiniest bit of sun is a gift.
Comments (13)
Faemike55
the same applies to southern Washington as well. great shot
npauling
We get the sunbreaks too as sometimes we don't see the sun for days either. Mind you when you do have sun it is a great gift. We seem to have a lot more cloudy days than we used to. I love this beautiful image with just that little bit of sun showing through. A fabulous capture. 😀
wysiwig
Looking at this image I am reminded of my travels in Northern California where the landscape appeared to gradually take form out of some primordial soup. A wonderful atmospheric picture.
helanker
So beautiful and peaceful and fun to follow. I had a good time this morning with the sun behind the trees. First it looked like someone put up light chains but it moved and I saw it was the sun trying to burst through the clouds. Really lovely to watch. It never really came through.
T.Rex
Great photo of this phenomenon. I've seen it in San Francisco during the foggy season. And here in south Sweden (near Copenhagen). We can have weeks of low clouds and fog with a sudden burst of sun that then is gone, as if someone drew a curtain. Keep up the good work. This is a great illustration of the effect. :-)
FredNunes
An amazing scene captured here!
durleybeachbum
I should need my SAD lamp even more often than I do if I lived in this climate. A rather eerie effect.
photosynthesis
This has a zen-like feeling of space & emptiness - it tells a story without any wasted detail. Fine work...
mandala
fantastic atmosphere and wonderful!
anahata.c
a beautiful, nothing-more-is-needed shot of fog and its caressing, mysterious effects. You captured the real beauty of it, the way fog dissolves a landscape, and caresses it at the same. And you got slivers of light in the right-side hills, which is just enough to suggest that "sunbreak," and enough suggestion of land to root this otherwise rootless shot. And a few lone people---esp the person with the dog: They are just clear enough to give the human perspective, even though they're tiny, even at full size. The rest is fog. (The rest is silence, lol---Hamlet.) And you got some reddish hues on the far right, which gives the feeling that something big is happening just beyond the frame....Don't know if this was close to the original dimensions, or if you cropped this from a much larger shot: Either way, the crop puts discernible reality on the left, and obliteration on the right, and it's beautiful. A wonderful fog shot, Tara. I'm glad you dug back for this, it's our treat that you did.
KatesFriend
Beautiful.
RodS
I love the effects of the sun shining on the buildings visible through the thinner portion of the fog. This has a wonderful almost mystical feel to it, Tara. A most lovely photograph!
junge1
Reminds me of being stationed up there. I remember it well!