BEAUTY
Life Is Beautiful, but We Are Not Always Able to See It
The power that lies in seeing is often underestimated.
By looking around us, seeing nature and people around us, we can lift ourselves from the experience of the gray and seemingly little valuable in life.
Here are some pictures from a “sun pole” over Nordhordland (Norway) that — if nothing else — can prove that beauty exists!
Here are — in chronological order — a few pictures from the ‘sun pole’ on Saturday 26 May 2018, sunset around 10 pm over Nordhordland.
The sunset creates a red or yellow, pillar-like formation rising from the sun, and it can almost look like an explosion far away.
The phenomenon of sun pole (sunspot) comes from flat ice particles floating in the air. When they fall horizontally — they reflect the rays of the sun in a “pole”.
Sunspot is a relatively rare natural phenomenon, and is sometimes visible only for a short time, before it disappears again.
Other times, such as at Bergen on 26 May 2018, the phenomenon can be observed for one and a half hours.
May 26, 2018, the sun pole started at about 21:30 …
… , and it stopped when the sun went down a little after 23:00.
The photos were taken from a location at Hylkjeneset with a Canon Mark III camera and a zoom lens 75–300mm.
Øivind H. Solheim is a novel author and a nature photographer from Norway who loves writing fiction, poetry, essays, and articles helping others understand life, other humans, and themselves. He has published six novels, two non-fiction books, and a poetry book.
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