North Bay’s Timothy Joseph Elzinga snapped the photos on his cellphone camera on Jan. 6. (Timothy Joseph Elzinga).
“It looked like someone from Star Trek was trying to beam people up,” Elzinga said.
Yes, it does! How cool. You can read all about the pillars of light here.
I didn’t manage to find out if this is a quirk of the atmosphere and refractive physics or something like that, or something else… but so neat.
Nature is amazing.
From the article:
What a magical shot!
I think it’s that they’re very short “rainbows” that look straight because the light-source generating them is relatively close and is at a 45 degree angle to the viewer.
Interesting! I believe that with some study and a better understanding of the physics of rainbows, one ought to be able to make a fountain that produced this effect deliberately using mist nozzles and artificial light.
Thanks, Caine. Somehow I completely missed that. :P :)
I imagine it’s rare because normally the water will condense out before freezing?
However it works, the effect is spectacular. Thanks for showing me something I’d never seen before!