Spetacular full solar halo photo.

Quite unusual to observe a full bright solar halo like this. I was

fortunate to have my wide angle lens (24mm equivalent)to shot the

full circle of this beautiful natural phenomena.

Is it clockwise 90 degrees? Interesting flare around the halo.

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Nice halo effect

Nice effect. If the obstructing object was more distinct it would be more interesting. The trees don't add anything.

Very interesting natural phenomenon, which you have captured very effectively, Gaetan.

Very nice shot!!!

Very nice visual effect!

The photo is presented the way I photographed it. It was not manipulated like using rotation in PS. As I said it is a winde angle lens and what you see at your right is the top of trees, it is not the horizon. The shot was taken at noon time so the sun elevation was quite hight near the meridian (looking south). Hope this answer your question.

The goal of this kind of shot is make manual ajustment to the camera so the halo will be visible in the photo. So it is impossible to have at the same time great metering for the halo and the 'obstructing object'. It is one or the other to choose. For me, the trees add to the perspective of the photo.

Well done! I first thought it was a lunar halo (we don't get ice crystals very often down under).

Really interesting and well done!

really like the lit! Beautiful!

This is very interesting, Gaetan. I didn't even know that this phenomenon existed, and I guess, you don't have to live in a land of ice and snow to observe it.

Gaetan. Great shot! I saw a full rainbow halo in a cloud formation while flying from Bangkok to Korea. This phenomenon was seen for about 5 minutes until it was out of sight. It looks like a circular rainbow with full glorious colors even more saturated then your image. Frankly, I don't know if it's a solar halo or not as the clouds was covering everything else but the rainbow was always there. I was just amazed and regret that my camera was not with me. Would have been awesome to photographed it without any silhouette.

 

Any scientist care to comment?

Here is a link that can give you a lot of informaion about optical phenomena :

http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/phenom.htm

 

Hope this will help you.

Yes, I have viewed the great website you sent and this is probably what I saw from the aeroplane. Not a solar flare but water reflections which cause the circular rainbow.

 

See :- http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/droplets/gloim11.htm

You were very lucky to get such a shot, well done, 6/7