I have been on the look out for unique atmospheric conditions as a part of my research for the National Maritime Museum project and it didn’t take long to find them. On a visit to Trygghamna Bay I witnessed a natural phenomenon that I have never seen before, a monochromatic rainbow. This far north, water droplets in the air freeze so the light reflects rather than refracts, unlike a regular rainbow. This manifests in pure white arches of light, which are pretty spectacular.
The weather conditions change very quickly here. Huge clouds of fog enveloped the bay from nowhere, making it difficult to see more than a few meters. As the fog cleared fragments of the landscape reappeared in the most unexpected ways. Mountain tops jumped out of the sky hovering impossibly, taking everyone by surprise.
Great photograph of the snow!bow Matt. Never thought there was such a thing.
Dude nice shooting!
The floating summit photo is great! Downloaded straight into my folder of found treasure
amazing photos and lovely to see a picture of a monochromatic rainbow which is now etched in my brain
wow. amazing, I never knew that that could happen.
Beautiful. But now I’m searching Flickr for photos of white rainbows when I should be going to sleep instead.
how have i never heard of this before? beautiful!
Hi Matt,
Looks like you are having a great trip, have just got back from holiday so having a catch up with how the expedition has been going via twitter.
Your photographs of the mountain top and the white rainbow are brilliant. Hope you see the aurora soon.
Nicky