Sumer Solstice pyramidal halos

Believe it or my lock has been holding out as far as halos goes because today I got my third pyramidal crystal halo display. In all 9, 18,20,23,and faint 35d halo, 18d plate arcs, upper and lower 23d plate arcs.

Pyramidal halos 6-14-14

Just like last Saturday this Saturday I got more pyramidal halos. In all I got 18 and 23d halos, 18 and upper 23d plate arc and an upper sun pillar

Pyramidal halos 6-7-2014

Odd radius halos from pyramidal crystals. In all there were 9,18, and 23deg halos, 18 and 23deg plate arcs. Its been months since I have gotten a decent photoworthy halo complex

Algae optics in Wisconsin

On the last day in Wisconsin I was out on a 4-wheeler ride when I saw a puddle back in the woods with a greenish film on it and decided to check it out to see if there was any optics in the algae film and lo and behold I saw a spectacular display of diffraction in the form of a corona around the sun's reflection, Quételet rings and a algae glory around my shadow. I could also see a fogbow like glow around the glory. I took quite a few pic's of this and I have always wanted to see some algae optics after seeing Marko Rikonnen's algae optics images that were taken from rocky islands in the Baltic Sea

Rainbow 6-30-13 with wheel spokes in the bow

Had a thunderstorm pass close to use and saw a small piece of rainbow form and when I got my camera it began to become more complete and the secondary was faintly visible as well and there was some interference arcs. The best part when the bow was mostly complete were the anticrepuscular rays converged into the rainbow forming the rainbow wheel with spokes like a wagon wheel. This is the second time I have gotten a nice spoked rainbow and the last was in either 2004 or 2005