Light
In landscape photography, choosing when to make a photograph is often predicated on getting "good" light - often that means contrasty warm golden-hour, although not always. In these photos, the light itself is a key feature.
Timelapse video of a partial solar halo in cirrus cloud toward sunset.
One of the more commonly encountered atmospheric optical phenomena, a 22-degree solar halo is caused by ice-crystals (typically associated with light wispy cirrus cloud) refracting the sun's light, giving the effect of a circular ring spectrum like a rainbow, centred on the sun. I saw this one as I was driving along the side of Loch Lochy as the sun had set below the level of the mountains on the other side of the loch. After shooting a few stills, I thought it would be interesting to watch the
