Optical Phenomena and Effects
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Those of you who have the 2018 CAS Calendar will have seen the Hans Stocker picture of cloud iridescence for June; the picture would serve equally for the Silver Lining thread. It is similar to this picture by Hans which I found in the CAS Gallery
And since the much missed Alec Jones set a fashion for themed threads, Hans made me think we might have this one for OPE.
My topic title is the name of a section in Richard Hamblyn’s ‘The Cloud Book’.
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Ah… ‘The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley’, as Burns noted. The Themed Thread can only work if the theme comes along often enough to remain in the contributor’s mind.
So I offer this link to an Andrew Kirk photo of alpenglow
Andrew was a frequent contributor (he often linked with Alec Jones) who kept us enthralled with the clouds in the Owens Valley, CA, beneath the Sierra Mountains; frequently at dawn.
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Hello Hygge, thanks for appreciating my pictures with iridescence and a corona. Very nice link to the picture by Andrew Kirk too. I like his pictures very much amnong them also the picture with “two for the price of one” you linked to in the Waves thread.
You stated that the Themed Thread can only work if the theme comes along often enough to remain in the contributor’s mind. Maybe you did not notice the somewhat different titled thread “Halos and Rainbows Volume II” covering already what you wish for. Indeed not that frequent updated, but nevertheless already Volume II. So let’s continue there.
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OK, Hans. But for the pedantic ones like me, could I suggest you make the title more open ended?
e.g. HALOS AND RAINBOWS VOLUME II might become
Haloes, Rainbows etc. Volume II
Hamblyn uses the term ‘optical phenomena’ a lot but I failed to find out what he means by ‘and Effects’. So I would be happy to settle for ‘etc.’.
‘H’ hygge
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