Way back in 2002' I took this shot and not till today did I see that it captured a cool light pillar. Honestly I did not even know about these till recently – Learn something new everyday…..
A light pillar is a visual phenomenon created by the reflection of light from ice crystals with near horizontal parallel planar surfaces. The light can come from the Sun (usually at or low to the horizon) in which case the phenomenon is called a sun pillar or solar pillar. It can also come from the Moon or from terrestrial sources such as streetlights
This would be the sunset I would like to see when I move to some planet other than earth….
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That's a nice sky you got there +Brent Burzycki
Dramatic color and that light pillar is so interesting!
Maybe it's the weather changing but a lot of us our looking into our back catalogues and finding old gold 😉 I love this shot +Brent Burzycki Amazing colours, great silhouettes, and that pillar 🙂 Excellent
I love sun pillars! This is beautiful!!!!
Very neat and interesting image!
I have gotten these before too in sunsets. I also have seen a rainbow in the winter as the sun set. That was really cool! I believe it's due to ice crystals too!
+Chuck Uebele +elizabeth hahn +Jordan Oram +J. Rae Chipera +Phuong-Thu Nguyen +Shane Hunter
Thanks all… the best part is this sunset is over one of the lowest income areas of this city – so on this day everyone was a bit richer..
Only if we could know when cool natural phenomena were going to occur… it would be so much easier to take photos…
+Benjamin Glatt – See this is my version of that guys work we talked about on the Hangout.. I swear.. not a smidge of photoshop was used in this image….. honest!!
Wow! So cool. One more reason to not delete photos!
+Melissa Dorner Yep – I rarely delete anything but the horrible stuff… and I get plenty of that….
Hey Brent, nice work. I'm a fan of legitimate landscapes…not computerized ones.. so thumbs up buddy!
Love the colours and the cloud shapes, very nice.
That is REALLY cool, +Brent Burzycki!
+Chuck Jackson +Sean Flynn thanks…
+Benjamin Glatt one of these days I will read your post…. part of my wants to do your idea of thinking and the other part wants to brutalize pixels to make alien looking landscapes…
takes ones breath away
Nice to know about the light pillar! I have several shots with those and I had no idea there was a name for it! The colors here are splendid! You just can't beat, great clouds, color & sunset!
+Judy Chandlee have to agree…