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[djellison]

Helen and I were at a place called 'Symonds Yat' today - a high vantage point over a large bow in the river Wye on the border between South Wales and England.

There was an exquisit layer of fog across the whole of the valley below, for dozens of miles around.

At one point, I could cast my shadow onto the fog below, and around me, was a small rainbow. The pictures don't really do it justice, so I stretched one a little to show the effect but it was quite astonishing!

Doug

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[djellison]

Here's a bit of a pan of the view - not a great one, but I'll keep working on them later in the week. If I hadnt seen the place 'sans fog' in the past, then I'd almost have been a bit dissapointed as I know how amazing the view is - but seing this sort of view ( at only about 550ft asl ) was very very strange indead

Doug

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[Bob Shaw]

Doug:

It's the Brocken (or Bracken) Spectre, quite a well-known effect. The figure and halo are famous on a number of 'sacred' mountains, too. Actually, the easiest place to see it these days is from an aeroplane, when the sun and clouds line up just so. I have some aerial photos somewhere showing the same effect, except with a the shadow of a 737 in it!

It's good fun, though!

Bob Shaw