#Images of brocken spectre series

The images below are simply ideas- they are not formed finished images but just the start. Rhys Pleming was climbing Snowdon with his friend Dale when they captured images of a rare weather phenomenon. I was struck at how the light from the small screens brought out the features of those in the image, and I also rather enjoyed the space landscape in the background- a simulacrum which only adds to the idea of modern life as rubbish (Baudrillard). Klein shared the video and photos she took of the glory. My Thursday group and I visited the National Museum of Scotland a few months ago and whilst there I took the photographs below. A Brocken spectre, center-left, is seen among the clouds on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park in Washington state on October 11. I like to imagine how Velazquez or Poussin or Rembrandt would have worked had they lighting choices other than candlelight or daylight?

#Images of brocken spectre series

I have wanted to produce a series of images of people interacting with technology and the one idea I keep coming back to is that of the sitter being lit only by the light of the device they are interacting with. I have developed a deeply cynical view of social networks and am an unwilling participant (I am not a luddite)! Tap into Getty Images global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. Select from premium Brocken Spectre of the highest quality.

When I first learned about brocken spectres it reminded me of the selfishness and illusionary nature of social networking and digital technologies of how we lack the technical knowledge and understanding of how networks are created, as if they are some sort of ethereal experience which they are not. Find Brocken Spectre stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Because of the angle of view only the observer can see this rainbow effect and this is what makes it a selfish rainbow. The light projects their shadow which falls on to droplets of water at varying distances from the eye causing a halo of colour like a rainbow. They are an optical illusion created when sun shines from behind an observer who is looking down on to cloud or mist. They were first observed in 1788 by Johan Siberschlag in the Harz mountains in Germany. It is the enormous magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun. I have been utterly obsessed with brocken spectres for several months (if not years) but haven’t been able to work them as an idea in to a project.Ī brocken spectre is, in effect a selfish rainbow. I keep a running list of favourite words and things (mainly in my head) and sometimes I get the chance to use them as a basis for a series of images.