| More images
Details:
During a lull in the meteor shower I noticed strangely bright and colorless isolated vertical clouds to the north. Other people we were with ignored them--as long as the blobs stayed in the north with the other clouds they wouldn't interfere with meteor watching. Still, it piqued my curiosity. I turned one of my cameras on them and--lo and behold!--they were light pillars from ground lights somewhere beyond the mountains!
I thought our latitude in Utah was too far south to see this type of phenomenon, much less in May, practically June; temps were in the mid-40's (not exactly freezing--but this is at ground level); and the blobs seemed to float apart from other clouds. Visually they were vertical, formless, colorless blobs--only the camera could see the colors and the striations/pillars.
#1: Simulation of the visual view (in B&W with cloud details suppressed)
#2: The actual photo
Photo data:
Panasonic GX8, Lumix 20mm, (f/2, 60 sec, ISO 1600)
Photographer's website:
No URL provided.
|
