It requires four things to come into alignment: 1) the sun needs to be close to the horizon 2) the clouds need to be about the same height as the mountains 3) the sun and the clouds need to have an azimuth of 180 degrees 4) you need to be there to create your haloed image of God in his earthly form! Though be assured, even if you aren't there, something creates this scene. If you spend enough time in the mountains, you will encounter it (I've seen 3 this year, and photographed 2). The Spectre of the Brocken, as it is known, isn’t particularly rare. Someone with an optics/astrophysics background can give a much more text book explanation of how this little wonder forms, but as per my caption on Flickr: I wonder if using a polarizer helped bring these out? I guess on the bright side, I have some images that can't -yet- be stolen -).Īs a Flickr commenter pointed out, this Brocken Spectre is somewhat special because of extra glory rings that can be seen towards the outer edges. You'd probably be surprised how many images from 2008-2011 are languishing in digital purgatory under the blanket of half completed trip reports. Since I sit on my photos till I have some poorly composed, error filled text to go with them, other than K-5 review readers, no one else got to see my spitting image of God in his earthly form. Nothing, and I mean nothing, screams thorough camera review like a cat and a brick wall! I was actually a little surprised no one commented on the Brocken Spectre image in the K-5 review, certainly not your usual review image of cats, dogs, flowers and of course, the all telling brick walls. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.” -Galen Rowell “You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet.
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