Brocken Spectre

[Jim Dockery]

A Brocken spectre (German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre, is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast upon clouds opposite of the Sun's direction. - Wikipedia

I'm somewhere in the rainbow around the shadow of the tip of the mountain.

 

[Jeffrey]

That's wild, Jim. Seems there's a word for everything.

 

[JimFox]

That is pretty cool that you captured that Jim.

 

[Kyle Jones]

Fantastic

 

[Ken Rennie]

Lovely. I was out 2 weeks ago and saw the tight "rainbow" but didn't bother getting into the direct sunlight to produce the "spectre" as the effect was fairly weak and not up to this standard. I will post when I get home on Monday. Ken

 

[Jim Dockery]

Thanks for the comments guys. It is even cooler when the clouds are just below and you can stand in silhouette on a ridge, throwing the shadow of your body into the center of the rainbow - I've only seen that a few times in my climbing.

 

[lionking]

WOW!

 

[Ken Rennie]

This is the "glory" without the spectre. Not a great composition but the effect looks good. Ken