Iridescent Clouds
by Donna Kennedy
Title
Iridescent Clouds
Artist
Donna Kennedy
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy
On a cold early morning in October I looked outside and saw this colorful sky, I have never seen these clouds have so much rich color. This is just the way it looked so of course I ran to get the camera!
Reno, Nevada
Sky watchers sometimes report seeing rainbow colors within clouds. These colorful clouds are called iridescent clouds. When you see a cloud like this, you know there are especially tiny ice crystals or water droplets in the air. Larger ice crystals produce solar or lunar halos, but tiny ice crystals or water droplets cause light to be diffracted– spread out – creating this rainbow-like effect in the clouds. The phenomenon is called cloud iridescence or irisation. The term comes from Iris, the Greek personification of the rainbow.
Thank you to the Administrators that Featured this photo in the following Groups..
-ABC Group-S is for Sky
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-All Natural Beauty of This World
-ART-It Is Good For You
-Arts Fantastic World
-USA Photographers Only
-Lady Photographers and Artists
-Look Towards the Sky
-Pictures For Present
-Cloud Formations - Sky Activity - And Eternal Horizons
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May 15th, 2017
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Janet Marie
Donna!! So gorgeous!! I love clouds in all their stages this says why!! Especially a rainBOW, nothing like a cloud wrapped up with that kind of bow!! Promoting in “Cloud Formations—Sky Activity—and Eternal Horizons” Rainbows And Accompanying Cloud Formations!! LV/FV Janet
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