this morning

[entelein]

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[blackbriar.livejournal.com]

You digitally manipulated that picture to increase the number of clouds. Why do you hate America?

[entelein.livejournal.com]

Heheheheheheheheheheh.

It so looks like drunken clone tool usage, doesn't it?

[blackbriar.livejournal.com]

It is lovely, though. A wonderful shot.

[caspian-x.livejournal.com]

Beautiful

[melange428.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's nice. Like a giant thumbprint of clouds.

[joyamber.livejournal.com]

Puuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrty.

[thunderclap8.livejournal.com]

wow. Did it go from horizon to horizon?

[entelein.livejournal.com]

I am not sure. I was a little chagrined that I didn't even notice it until the bus was practically pulling up, and there were so many people waiting at the stop that I had to get over camera shyness to take the pic. I certainly wasn't fully awake, heh.

[lakilika.livejournal.com]

We get those, too. It's nice to have lots of sky.

[ubersaurus.livejournal.com]

Woah, that's weird.

[(Anonymous)]

This shot just screams "METACORTECHS! OMG KLOO!!! NEW PIX ON DINAS PAGE!!!"

It *is* a very nice shot, BTW. Your photography always has a certain symmetry to it.

Wolf

[entelein.livejournal.com]

omg, Wolf, you crack me up.

What can I say? I like the sky. ;)

[clayfoot.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I knew O'Hare was busy, but that's a lot of contrails... *grin*

-- Steve doesn't see that washboard effect too often. Sure is pretty.

[clayfoot.livejournal.com]

Funny.

That reminds me of September 12, 2001: No contrails in the sky at all, for a change.

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking of 9-12-01 memories, I distinctly recall walking outside my office on that morning, looking up and seeing a complete, 360-degree circular rainbow. I'd never seen one before, and haven't seen one since.

Wolf

[clayfoot.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. It should be impossible to see a full circle rainbow from the ground. Was the rainbow around the sun or opposite the sun? Was there ice or water on the ground?

[(Anonymous)]

Seems to me, if memory serves, that it was reasonably sunny and dry (although around here early-morning misty fog is common in September) and definitely not cold or icy. I want to say it was more around the sun than opposite it. It would have been in the northeastern part of the sky, probably around 10 or 10:30 in the morning, which is when I normally take a break and go outside.

Wolf

[(Anonymous)]

Went out and looked and found this. It would be possible that there may have been some high-level ice crystal activity going on, even though it was still shirt-sleeve weather here (September in Indiana).

"On days in the spring where it is still cold enough that there are high-altitude ice crystals, you can sometimes look up an noon and see a rainbow that goes all the way around the sun. This is extremely rare.

More generally we see things like sun-dogs, which are refractive rainbows made by clouds to either side of the sun. These are pretty common."

Don't know which it might have ben, but it was cool. Now I wish I'd had a camera that day.

Wolf

[clayfoot.livejournal.com]

Wow, I think all of that explains it: cirrus or cirrostratus clouds (like in entelein's photo, a relatively high sun (10:30am), and a complete circle around the sun. Sounds like a rainbow-colored halo; those are rare. Usually, halos are white. You were looking the right way at just the right time for that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_%28optical_phenomenon%29
http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/glossary/index.cgi?letter=c

[tuliphead.livejournal.com]

Wow... way cool.

[jphotog.livejournal.com]

word up, new homey.