photos by Alan Grinberg

"White Rainbow"
A more accurate name might be "Fogbow over the Pacific". This is a very unusual atmospheric phenomena, resulting from sunlight striking fog droplets which are so tiny that they can not act as prisms as larger droplets do in a colored rainbow. This is the only fogbow I have seen during my 4 years of living on the ocean.

October 8, 2006, 10:09 am

Canon Rebel 350XT
EFS 17-85 mm @ 17 mm (27 mm equivalent)
1/160th Sec, f/14
ISO 100

http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/droplets/fogbow.htm

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