two photos

Here are two photos I took with our Nikon d3100 I did make some very slight edits in Designer Pro 7

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Lovely sunset but the other photo: Did you place the stone there or was it like that?

Thanks Rik. The stone was just there like that. I thought it made an interesting photo.

The ivy and stone really do make this an interesting composition. I also liked the depth of colour on the leaves and the sunlight patch in the foreground.

Thanks, the sun was just beginning to set when I took the photo and the lighting was just perfect.

The double sun in the sunset, looks rather unusual.

agree - the 'lower sun' looks completely out of place to me..

This is a sunset mirage, low slanting rays refracted between air layers of different temperatures. I am no expert, still learning to look beyond the obvious, but if you want to see some amazing stuff with explanations then visit Atmospheric Optics website, Les Cowley. Amazing optics that we can capture photos of.
Hope it may give you some explanations to the things we see at times and think 'thats a bit strange' and a mission to try and capture through the lens. Lots of interesting fun.

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Originally Posted by pauland

The double sun in the sunset, looks rather unusual.

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I hear what you say - but it just does not look natural, notwithstanding...

maybe Frances can put us right....

kshep is correct :) I only made some very slight adjustments to the contrast of this photo. The double sun is exactly what the camera captured.

The camera does the same with shots of Aurora angelize. What we see with our eye in that instant is no where near as intense as what the camera catches with a slow shutter speed where rays might move up and down doz of times on a open shutter for 30sec or more.
It is amazing what the camera will capture that the eye does not see at times when it comes to optics. Great fun and some wonderful surprises, you have a special shot there, something different to the normal sunset. I enjoyed it very much.

Kshep's description of the sunset and why it appears to be two suns is very accurate. It occurs in some areas of the world very often so it looks quite natural to some people but very odd to others.

Thanks for the update. I've never seen such a view, so I did wonder if it was as it should be. Now I know. Nice work and a beautiful "double" sunset!

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Looking again at the image, it really is the oddest looking thing. The "lower" sun looks slightly displaced to the left in comparison with the sun that pops out from behind the cloud and the reflection on the sea. Even more remarkable, it appears to pop up from behind some land, but on my monitor it looks like land behind it too, so it really is a very unusual image.
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