Sunrise at Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
After days of fog and near white out with visibility of almost zero, the sun finally shows up albeit for a few minutes on our last day here in Yunnan, China. Am so lucky to capture this beautiful Jesus light with its reflection on the rice terraces.
Beautiful crepuscular rays (more commonly known as sunbeams, sun rays, or god rays, Jesus light), in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight. Their apparent convergence is a perspective effect, similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance.
The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight.
Sunrise at Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
After days of fog and near white out with visibility of almost zero, the sun finally shows up albeit for a few minutes on our last day here in Yunnan, China. Am so lucky to capture this beautiful Jesus light with its reflection on the rice terraces.
Beautiful crepuscular rays (more commonly known as sunbeams, sun rays, or god rays, Jesus light), in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight. Their apparent convergence is a perspective effect, similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance.
The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight.