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A rare sight, seen over the Cathedral City of Lincoln.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_iridescence
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They may appear to have black bodies, but as with many moths, with the right flash angle you can see the amazing iridescence.
A bit of grooming for the Male Kingfisher with the sunlight showing the iridescence of the feathers.
Going back through my thousands of hummingbird archives I found this delightful visitor to the garden. The Calliope is the smallest North American bird. He measures approximately 3 inches long. The streaks of iridescence purple on his throat are referred to as a beard and extend away from the body when he becomes excited.
Check him out bigger and bolder View On Black
Saw this Mallard male while walking around Mill Lake in Abbotsford, British Columbia. (23-04-04-1501)
Spiderwebs in morning light. Zeiss C-Sonnar T* 1.5/50 with extension tubes. Sony a7rIV ISO 100 f/1.5 1/320s
Love the iridescent colours in the webs behind the focal plane. The colour bands are in focus in the segments where the webs are blurred. Not a continuous rainbow that would be produced by refraction, this banded pattern represents multipath diffraction. Like the double-slit experiment in high school physics, this is a quantum Interference pattern.
Sunlight is both diffracted and refracted by the microscopic sticky drops along the length of the spiders catch-thread, each wavelenth refracted to a different degree. A quantum interference pattern develops in front of the web for each colour, the web itself out of focus, as the photons constructively or destructively interfere with themselves.
For in order to make a band of blue colour, each of those blue photons has passed through at least two sticky drops on the catch-thread simultaneously, in quantum superposition. Makes sense for waves, not so much for particles. Yet single photons fired through the double-slits one by one will still interfere with themselves and build up a banded interference pattern over time. Wave-particle duality, the heart of quantum physics. Spiderwebs. Spooky.
This male Anna's hummingbird looked rather un-colorful until he faced the camera. Then, BOOM, his whole head lit up. Boyce Thompson Arboretum just outside Superior, Arizona.
This is a "Thick-Legged Flower Beetle" the oxeye daisy but he had a lovely iridescence about him (he is a male). Oxeye is one of their favourites apparently.
"Iridescence:" While I was waiting for the sun to set at Lockett Meadow, I observed a small iridescence in the clouds appearing to the left of the sun. Plenty of science exists to explain its occurrence, including water droplets in the cirrus clouds refracting the sunlight. But for me in that moment where the sun's last visible rays were beaming over the mountain peaks and lighting pockets of the aspen leaves a brilliant gold, it just added to the ethereal quality of the scene. I hope you enjoy as well.
N.B. The shadow (reflection?) of our plane in the cloud below, surrounded by a rainbow-colored ring of iridescence. I had never seen anything like this before; I was mesmerized! (Feb. 2015 update: I have since seen this phenomenon a couple more times. But I still find it mesmerizing!)
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Track lights reflected in the iridescent screen of an iPhone, for Flickr Friday’s #DepthOfField theme. The sharpest view of the iridescence comes from focusing on the light source, not the reflecting surface. Reflections of closer objects are less well focused. Note how the colors vary with angle, warmer on the left, cooler on the right. Rotating the phone also changes the colors, which can shift from rainbow to all blue or all red.
SOOC. Provia film simulation, Fujifilm’s most realistic.
14 Feb 2021; 07:38 CST
Refracción de la luz (parhelio) en forma de placas hexagonalesde cristales de hielo en las altas y frías nubes cirros, tambien, durante un tiempo muy frío, con cristales de hielo a la deriva en el aire en niveles bajos, en cuyo caso se les llama polvo de diamante
Aristóteles ya dijo que los "soles falsos" estan siempre a un lado, nunca por encima o por debajo, con mayor frecuencia al amanecer o al atardecer, con menor frecuencia al mediodía.
feliz martes de Nubes!!!!☁ ☁ ☁
Compare the iridescence on the wings and tail in this photo with image 0410. Iridescence is caused by the intereference between light waves reflected from the sub-microscopic (nano) structures of the feathers.
The slight change in position of the bird in a fraction of a second alters the angle, and also where the iridescence is seen.
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I tried to get a timelapse of these clouds passing by, but they were too low and moving too fast, so they didn't stay in frame long, and there are large gaps in the movement of the clouds from frame to frame.
I often see this cloud iridescence in thin clouds that are close to the sun, but it never lasts long.
Iridescent European Starling on a branch. Sunset Bay, White Rock park, Dallas, Texas, 14 February 2025
Detail of stainless steel and dichroic film sculpture by George Sherwood currently on display at Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Boylston, Massachusetts
119 in 2019
#40 - Ever Decreasing Circles
ODC - Iridescence
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on this Individual Hybrid Wigeon Drake,
now nick named
"Caddy GH" short for Cadboro Bay ,Gyro Park Hybrid
Male
Eurasian Wigeon EUWI (Anas penelope)
X American Wigeon AMWI (Anas americana)
Gyro Park near
Cadboro Bay, Saanich, British Columbia
DSCN9413
just some more to show variance of appearance of this same individual...
Witness our iridescence beauty! And you'll be blessed with good fortune, creativity, and positive energy.
A female ruby throated hummingbird enjoys some fresh nectar and a few seconds of not being a hypersonic green streak.
A rainbow cloud can occur because of something called cloud iridescence. Very cool sky seen in Oliphant, Ontario.
On Black -- It's worth it.
The Wave itself is not easy to find. In an effort to maintain the area's natural settings, there are few trails or signs to guide hikers within the area. It is not uncommon for groups to get lost and never find the Wave. It is therefore recommended that each group carry a GPS receiver to both find the Wave and their way back. The Wave's exact GPS coordinates can be obtained from the rangers. --from Wiki
There's an iridescence in some of The Wave's formations, which I've attempted to convey here. The squiggly, glowing orange sections about mid way through the image literally shimmer in low light, glowing in majestic multi-dimensional depth. It's truly one of those things that's best experienced in person.
This beautiful iridescence is the result of light reflection and refraction, not by the pigments on the feathers. One will see different colours from different angles.
Its beauty is also used in Chinese hair dress decoration known as '點翠' (Dian Chui' which literary means 'spot of turquoise'
Today, Tuesday, 28 September 2021, I joined a few birding friends for a walk at Mallard Pt., Fish Creek Park. We broke up into four groups. Quite a long walk, around 8,000 steps.
It was another beautiful fall morning with blue sky, sunshine and glorious fall colour. Unfortunately, a lot of leaves have already fallen in places, and I suspect that we won't have much longer to enjoy the short-lived, golden leaves. A shame that such a beautiful season doesn't last for a much longer time. On this day last year, 28 September 2020, Calgary had a most unwelcome snow storm!
An American Kestrel was a really nice sighting, though it was so far away, tucked among branches and leaves. How the person who spotted it did so, just amazed us all. Hopefully, I can rescue one of my very distant shots to post later.
Several Double-crested Cormorants perched very high up in a tree were good to see. They looked like black silhouettes in my photos and not the best quality, but they are quite impressive birds, especially when they spread their huge wings to dry and fan their tails.
A European Starling posed nicely for us, too, right out in the open. They look pretty much black from a distance, but when seen up close, they reveal their attractive feather patterns and iridescence.
One of the groups came across a Black-billed Magpie caught up in fishing line. They managed to free it and away if flew.
Lesser Purple Emperor (Apatura ilia) on my website
Petit Mars Changeant (Apatura ilia)
The male of the Lesser Purple Emperor has the distinction of having a blue iridescence that appears by exposure to light. The clytie form for this species has orange stripes on top of its wings while they are white in specimens of Ilia form.
Le mâle du petit mars changeant a la particularité d'avoir une irisation bleue qui apparait selon son exposition à la lumière. Ce mâle de forme clytie a des bandes oranges sur le dessus de ses ailes alors qu'elles sont blanches ches les individus de forme ilia.
While driving to town, I stopped to get the mail. I turned to see this brilliant display of iridescence and had to make do with this post in order to block the sun.
A few minutes later while on the road, the display tripled in size and oh that rainbow color. Unfortunately, the western high plains is noted for not having many tree (when you need one) so I missed photographing perhaps the 2nd most impressive displays in my life. :-(
The reflectors had nothing to do with creating these colors - heh heh.