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Atmospheric Underglow

2023-01-22 By Roger Edwards

Atmospheric Underglow

Underglow more commonly is known from the social-vanity phenomenon of strapping L.E.D. strands on the underbellies of cars to make the street light up.  However, the atmosphere can do it to, in a bass-ackwards way.  It helps hugely to have a large water body beneath!  Here, following a gorgeous sunrise, the show wasn’t done.  After the sun has disappeared behind the cloud edge from our viewing angle, the cloud base glowed with a bronze tint, reddened by both dimness and passage of light across a long atmospheric trajectory from sun, to reflective ocean, to cloud, to eyeball.  To some extent, this phenomenon appears above brightly colored land areas too, such as over the extensive reddish surface of the Painted Desert in Arizona.

5 NW Bar Harbor ME (4 Oct 22) Looking E
44.432, -68.2613

Filed Under: Visual Effects Tagged With: altocumulus, altocumulus undulatus, altostratus, Atlantic Ocean, birds, clouds, convection, islands, landscapes, Maine, Mount Desert Island, New England, ocean, reflectives, seashores, waterscapes, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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