Glory glory glory by aangus

Photography • Weird • posted on Nov 01, 2004

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Brocken Spectre. ~@~ Yip its real. To see this sort of effect you have to be in the right place at the right time (and have a good bit of luck). If your up high, and the sun is low on one side, and there is low cloud on the other side, your shadow is cast onto the cloud causing this type of circular rainbows. The rainbows are centred on your own POV and seem to radiate from your shadow. If the conditions are right, this can get really intense with 4 or 5 complete bows around a very bright centre. If you raise your arms, the shadows from your finger tips stream into the centre almost like a laser-show. So if your ever up a hill in Scotland and see someone flapping their arms at the top and hollering like a loopy.... you might know why!!

Comments (19)

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kenwas

2:47PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

Nature continues to amaze. Stunning capture!

RNitze

2:48PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

X-Class Picture. I've never been able to take a picture of it. A can count 5 Corona rings. Absolutly fantastic!!! Vote!!

captainparsa

2:59PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

magical fantastic !!! those ray are coming from your shadows head bravo ######################## 20/000League under the sea with~captain parsas VOTE for you ~~~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~O~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~O~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~O~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~O~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~O~~~ ~~~~~#~~~~~~~~O~~~ strong><strong><strong><strong>@@@@</strong__~~o~~~~~(O____O___O/~~~~~o~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~o~~ ~~~~~~~~o~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~o~~~ ~~~~~~~~~o~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~o~~~ ~~~~~~~~o~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~o~~~ ~~~~~~~~~o~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~o~~

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sossy

3:15PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

hey, a very interesting effect! fantastic find! and looks so unreal but beautiful! thanks for this discription, because I thought my objective was wet when shooting! found something in a photo and didn't know what it is!

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LostPatrol

4:34PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

Oh so totaly cool I have never seen one of these, maybe its your halo St aangus, got to be worth a vote in my book.

Tedz

4:35PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

Very interesting.....I hope You get Airborne.....and the Halo gives You the Divine look....Bless You. Aye!

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NODROG69

4:41PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

WOW! I've never witnessed this ~ what an absolutely amazing sight. I'm heading for the hills!

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Beemer

5:07PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

Most Excellent Picture!... Thanks for the discription too!.....

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Gabrielsdream

5:10PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

Never seen or heard of this before! What an amazing sight and great you were able to capture it! Thanks for sharing this, it is literally BRILLIANT!

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TobinLam

5:24PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

That is so amazing. It wasn't a couple months ago that I learned about different types of rainbows, but not this one. Great shot!

cynlee

11:28PM | Mon, 01 November 2004

i will certainly keep this in mind, never seen it before! very cool :]

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addiek

1:48AM | Tue, 02 November 2004

So that's what's going on... thought they were the scottish airforce!!! LOL. This is the sort of wonderful stuff you discover when you mix climbing and photography! EXCELLENT presentation.

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lejimi

7:55AM | Tue, 02 November 2004

I didn't knew about that optical effect. Amazing !

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nelsone

2:12PM | Tue, 02 November 2004

Fascinating - I've only seen one, from an airplane, and it didn't contain so mant bows. So strange - the colors are in the reverse order from a rainbow.

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Corwin13

4:40PM | Tue, 02 November 2004

Absolutely amazing!!!

pimbotin

10:25AM | Wed, 03 November 2004

Incredible! You're right when you say that you need to "have a good bit of luck". I've only seen a couple of pictures about of this spectrum. Fantastic!!!

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