Cloud lensing

There are times when I’m flying and the clouds are just right to focus the suns light into a bright spot that follows the plane for several minutes. It is clearly some sort of reflection or refraction of the sun. What I like here is that you can see the sun, the sun’s reflection off the wing, the weird cloud effect *and* some lens flare so you can tell that the weird sun thing isn’t just in the lens. I could see it with the unaided eye … and now you can too.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

More lensing

Here’s another view of just the bright spot effect hovering over the clouds, so you can see it without all the other distractions.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Infrared camels

Sometimes the infrared-in-colour effect does things I can’t really explain.

The camels seem confused as well.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.