Apr 5th, 2016: Light Pillars

Alaskan light pillars are reflected light, in this case from the ground, when there's a icy fog or light snow with flakes that are just right.




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Just one pillar :)

I love light pillar shots! The pillars happen around here fairly often at both sunrise and sunset. The attached photo is my favorite I've ever gotten of the phenomenon--a single vivid light pillar (I also have a shot where it's centered on the church spire, and bigger copies) with a pair of "sun dogs" caused by refraction of light through ice crystals--it was well below freezing that morning when I noticed the light had gotten downright weird.

A'ight, since it doesn't seem to want to add the photo I'll pop over to the member images area...