Ancient Mysteries
by elsapo

Comment by pmichaud:
The clouds really make this image for me. I love the one on the right which almost looks like it is forming a Kokopelli to combine two ancient mysterious cultural images. Nice work!

Ancient Mysteries
by elsapo

Comment by bvy:
That hole in the cloud could be an eye looking down. Great.

ALE
by elsapo

Comment by susielmt:
I love how her eyes seem to sparkle..

ALE
by elsapo

Comment by insteps:
NIce portrait. I feel it might be stronger if her feet were shown or you cropped at the bottom of her skirt.

ALE
by elsapo

Comment by Zepcrmc:
Shoot straight, forget the angle stuff, not working for you

The Prismatic Beacon
by elsapo

Comment by md1088:
Cool shot! My best guess is that you captured just a small piece of a rainbow probably made from a very small band of precipitation. This lines up well with the fact that stratocumulus clouds produce such small bands of precip, and those are what are being illuminated. The raindrops that formed this bow are also non-uniformly spherical as there is no evidence of any supernumerary banding next to the blue. It appears as though the sun was probably to your back maybe over your right shoulder a little to suggest the anti-solar point was to the left of the shot which makes sense to the angle at which the colors are banked towards. I am also thinking based on the angle of the bow, the sun had to have been pretty low in the sky when you took this, as the angle of inclination looks to be rather significant for a rainbow, probably around 30 or 40 degrees.

Long story short, cool shot! I'd be curious to see the original too! I'm a meteorology undergrad so atmospheric photography is kind of my thing. Kudos!

The Prismatic Beacon
by elsapo

Comment by Hussar1812:
Love the composition here!

The Prismatic Beacon
by elsapo

Comment by CJinCA:
Unusual and interesting lighting taking this out of the ordinary sea/cloud shot.

The Prismatic Beacon
by elsapo

Comment by giantmike:
What nd amazingly cool capture.

The Prismatic Beacon
by elsapo

Comment by jjstager2:
What a fascinating shot!