Blue night sky full moon awakeness #fullmoon #iridescence #clouds #moonbeams #photography

Émerveillez vous devant le phénomène naturel d' #iridescence ! 💎✨

Liée à l'interaction entre la lumière et la surface d'un objet, l'iridescence s'observe dans la #nature : des ailes soyeuses de #papillons aux #minéraux irisés, on vous explique...

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Qu’est-ce que l’iridescence ?

L’iridescence est un phénomène optique dans lequel la couleur d’un objet dépend de l’angle d’observation et d’éclairage de celui-ci. En fonction de l’interaction de la lumière avec les structures à la surface de l’objet, différentes couleurs peuvent apparaître. Ce phénomène s’observe dans un grand nombre de situations, que ce soit sur les minéraux, les ailes de certains papillons, les bulles de savon, les taches d’essence et bien d’autres… 

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
#sunrise through the cool fluffy #clouds #fresh #morning mountain air #photography #iridescence #light
Cyclones up north and bush fires down south #fallstreak #cloud #sun #iridescence #summer #australia #sky #observations this is the edge of the Cyclone near NsW border- rain soon - ants are on the move #photography
Yesterday morning felt like one of those quiet bets you make with nature. The night had frozen everything solid, so I suspected there might be low-hanging fog waiting somewhere between the fields and the treelines. As I walked in, part of me was afraid I had already “mist” it — but as the sun crept closer to the horizon, the air began to thicken, soft and silver, like the world taking a slow breath.

Just before sunrise, something unexpected happened. High above the forming fog, an ice cloud lit up in iridescent colours — mostly red, orange, and yellow, with subtle hints of green and blue. Ice crystals at high altitude can refract sunlight much like tiny prisms, creating these fleeting rainbow glows known as irisation. It felt like a quiet scientific miracle happening in real time.

That’s when I saw the leafless tree. Stark, skeletal, patient. And suddenly the composition clicked: a tree seemingly losing its last colours into the sky, like a gentle puff of smoke drifting upward. It’s not my most dramatic image, but there was something special in its simplicity — a moment where winter, light, physics, and imagination lined up just long enough to press the shutter.

Photography, after all, is just another way of studying light and life.

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What Is the Essence of Iridescence? Ask a Hummingbird

Microscopic secrets hidden away in hummingbird feathers manipulate light to give these tiny birds—the most colorful birds on Earth—the power to dazzle on command.

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The world is full of colours we can't see #sun #clouds #iridescence #photography #gritty goodness
The first time I saw cloud iridescence . #sun #clouds #iridescence #light #colour #trees #skies #cirrus Sept 12 2021