Reflected rainbow at sunset

Rainbows are always opposite the Sun and their centres are below the horizon at the the so called antisolar point. Early morning and late afternoon it the best time to see a rainbow because the sun must not be too high. The lower the sun the higher is the rainbow.

In this photo I took in Vansbro, Sweden, taken just before sunset, the rainbow is as high as it gets and with the reflection in the water, acting as the lower half of a circle, it's easy to see that the rainbow was at its highest position. Had the Sun been any higher in the sky, this circle had been more ellipse shaped.

Rainbows are rarer than might be thought, halos are much more common.

Panorama made with a Nikon D800E with a Nikon AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8 lens

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Historic solar halo

Here's a shot from last week showing a 22° solar halo over the old church in Oviken, Jämtland, Sweden. The old church was first built during the middle ages and was then rebuilt as it looks today in the 18th century.

Halo over the old church of Oviken, Jämtland, Sweden

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Solar and lunar halo

Earlier in March this year I took a shot of me standing in a winter landscape under a lunar halo. Last week I returned to the same spot and redid the shot, but this time during a solar halo. I didn't get the exact same angle but it was pretty close.

One year in Östersund

During the recent year I've been taking photos over Östersund on a regular basis from the exact same location. This is my biggest and longest project so far. My plan was to take an image every week to get a smooth animation but I didn't quite manage that. The animation consists of 36 photos. During some periods the landscape didn't change much so I've excluded some images to get a better flow of the changes in the landscape. Hope you like it.



Music - "Virtues Inherited Vices Passed On" by Chris Zabriskie

Vårt vackra Öland

För ett tag sedan var jag nere på Öland tillsammans med min familj. Där hälsade vi på några goda vänner i några dagar och jag passade givetvis på att ge mig ut i den Öländska natten. En sak som återigen slog mig är att det är ett fantastiskt vacker ljus nere på Öland efter att solen gått ner. Nästan varje kväll klarnade det upp och jag fick njuta av den vackra kvällshimlen. Jag fick också se lite svaga nattlysande moln ett par kvällar, något som vi har väldigt lite av här uppe i norr då himlen är för ljus.

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A while ago I was down on Öland with my family. There we visited some good friends for a few days and I took the opportunity go out in the Ölandic night. One thing that struck me once again is that it is an incredibly beautiful evening light on Öland. Almost every night the weather cleared up and I got to enjoy the beautiful evening sky. I also got to see a little noctilucent clouds.