Fogbow Over Zeriki Village, Mount Helicon Greece
May 30, 2019
Photographer: Tsouras Panagiotis
Summary Authors: Tsouras Panagiotis; Jim Foster
The fogbow shown above was captured near Zeriki village on Mount Helicon (Elikónas) in central Greece. This was the first time I ever observed a fogbow. I felt quite fortunate to see it since just a few minutes later, it was lost in the mist. The tiny water droplets that compose fog (about .01 mm in diameter) act to primarily diffract light, so these soft bows don’t have the brighter, well-defined colors characteristic of rainbows, which result when sunlight is refracted in much larger raindrops (about 0.3 mm in diameter). Photo taken on April 7, 2019.
Photo Details: NIKON D750; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 (Windows); Exposure Time: 0.0004s (1/2500); Aperture: ƒ/5.0; ISO equivalent: 100; Focal Length (35mm): 14; Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8.