God Rays 3
by George Buxbaum
Title
God Rays 3
Artist
George Buxbaum
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Silent City at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. Facing east at sunset provided a magnificent display of color in the sky. This is a spectacular phenomenon. This is known as anticrepuscular rays. I still like God Rays better.
Crepuscular rays happen when the sun is behind some object, usually clouds, and its rays are scattered in the air by rain, snow or dust. Perspective makes the rays go away from the Sun, giving them its supernatural God is pointing at us look.
Anticrepuscular rays are the same but, instead of looking as if they are going away from the Sun, these rays converge on the horizon 180 degrees opposite to our home star. The rays go through the sky in a straight line but they appear to re-converge at the anti-solar point because of perspective.
In another one of those instance where you should always look behind you, literally 3 minutes prior to this display of light in the east, I was rewarded with a completely different composition and sky. Please see my image titled Clouds at Sunset in my gallery Bryce and Zion National Park. It was a crazy night in the park that night.
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December 15th, 2012
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