Sparks the Knave
Him on Earth
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- Jun 28, 2006
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Today I saw something that was in my mind pretty special/magical. It's no doubt nothing new to many of you but I had never seen anything like it in my entire life or thought to look for it.
setting the scene, it's spring here now and firmly warm enough to sun bake, so today I decided to do just that. It's my day off I say, I'm home alone besides the dog, it's a bright blue morning with some nice white fluffy clouds to boot, just what I need.
As the sun was bright I decided to wear some polarized sunglasses and catch some rays next to the pool, perhaps start trying to get some colour back after winter -Now the sun is fairly warm here and even brighter still, so you mostly try to avoid looking into it even with sunglasses on- As I lay there to start with on my back, I had my eyes closed like usual. After five or so minutes of half dozing off and enjoying the warmth, A cloud passed over (easy to tell as it became darker behind my eyelids and the rays beating down lessened in intensity straight away), so placing my hand up to block the sun I open my eyes to check if it's going to be a long wait for the cloud to pass or not.
this is when I noticed through the polarized lens the true colours of light passing through the cloud packs. the cloud away from the sun remained snow white and fluffy as usual and the clouds right where the sun was were to bright and flared to see into, but those clouds not to close and not to far away were a lucid bright mixture of whites, pinks, purples, light blues and turquoisey greens + golds and orange here and there. and the spirals in each cloud were a different moving colour holding it's own and not dispersing into each other. to start with I thought this may simply have been a trick of the lens, so I tested looking without the glasses on, sure enough the clouds were bright and hard to see into and mostly white once more.... but!! I could still see small faint traces of their odd colours. placing back on the glasses I was able to see the different layers of the clouds interact and swirl amidst each other which is much less noticeable with the naked eye, it seemed like magic and I have to say I was pretty in awe of the exact shades of colour coming through and the displays goign on.
I never knew myself, if it's a bright day and you have polarized sunnies then I'd say take a look when the conditions are right. this image will stay in my head for some time and I plan to use it somewhere in some fantasy literature I have bubbling away in my head.
setting the scene, it's spring here now and firmly warm enough to sun bake, so today I decided to do just that. It's my day off I say, I'm home alone besides the dog, it's a bright blue morning with some nice white fluffy clouds to boot, just what I need.
As the sun was bright I decided to wear some polarized sunglasses and catch some rays next to the pool, perhaps start trying to get some colour back after winter -Now the sun is fairly warm here and even brighter still, so you mostly try to avoid looking into it even with sunglasses on- As I lay there to start with on my back, I had my eyes closed like usual. After five or so minutes of half dozing off and enjoying the warmth, A cloud passed over (easy to tell as it became darker behind my eyelids and the rays beating down lessened in intensity straight away), so placing my hand up to block the sun I open my eyes to check if it's going to be a long wait for the cloud to pass or not.
this is when I noticed through the polarized lens the true colours of light passing through the cloud packs. the cloud away from the sun remained snow white and fluffy as usual and the clouds right where the sun was were to bright and flared to see into, but those clouds not to close and not to far away were a lucid bright mixture of whites, pinks, purples, light blues and turquoisey greens + golds and orange here and there. and the spirals in each cloud were a different moving colour holding it's own and not dispersing into each other. to start with I thought this may simply have been a trick of the lens, so I tested looking without the glasses on, sure enough the clouds were bright and hard to see into and mostly white once more.... but!! I could still see small faint traces of their odd colours. placing back on the glasses I was able to see the different layers of the clouds interact and swirl amidst each other which is much less noticeable with the naked eye, it seemed like magic and I have to say I was pretty in awe of the exact shades of colour coming through and the displays goign on.
I never knew myself, if it's a bright day and you have polarized sunnies then I'd say take a look when the conditions are right. this image will stay in my head for some time and I plan to use it somewhere in some fantasy literature I have bubbling away in my head.
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