wings 天使之翼

nobody@flickr.com (*dans) — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:50:56 -0700

*dans posted a photo:

from heaven...

suggest to view large size.
this rare meteorological phenomenon - iridescent clouds, happened at AM08:09:26, 2007/7/19 in the sky of Taipei.
i used a 70-200mm VR with CPL filter to shoot from my office's balcony.
to view all photos about clouds 雲.

ps:
"When parts of clouds are thin and have similar size droplets, diffraction can make them shine with colours like a corona. In fact, the colours are essentially corona fragments. The effect is called cloud iridescence or irisation, terms derived from Iris the Greek personification of the rainbow..."
for more detail: www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/irid1.htm

看見如此斑斕的虹彩雲，除了驚豔外，聯想起:
"身無彩鳳雙飛翼，心有靈犀一點通"，唐朝李商隱的詩...

Taipei, Taiwan
2007/7/19
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