God Rays is a photograph by Cheryl McClure which was uploaded on October 2nd, 2014.
God Rays
On this particular day, the clouds rolled in without warning and they accumulated so quickly it was amazing to watch them form. As the sun shown... more
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God Rays
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Cheryl McClure
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On this particular day, the clouds rolled in without warning and they accumulated so quickly it was amazing to watch them form. As the sun shown behind the clouds, it made a spectacular view!
Per wikipedia: Crepuscular rays (also known as Sun rays) 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, and 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 crepuscular 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.
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