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I've put this in for general interest. It's in critique to allow discussion, but I don't mind critique. This is genuine - no tricks.
The quality is poor, but it is what you see I'm interested in discussing. During the hot weekend - 23 May - we were at Skipse, near Bridlington, we saw a mirage. Never seen one before.
This is with a long lens on tripod, but the effect and heat haze caused a total lack of sharpness. You are looking at Flamborough head and a large coal carrier on the skyline. There is a temperature inversion layer almost level with the cliff tops, and the ship is naturally reflected in it upside down.
As said, this is as it appeared - no tricks.
Paul
| Camera: | EOS 7D |
| Lens: | 50/500 Sigma EX DG on Giottos carbon tripod. |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | Mirage |
| Username: | 
paulbroad |
| Uploaded: | 1 Jun 2010 - 7:57 AM |
| Tags: | Effect., General, Landscape / travel, Mirage, Specialist / abstract, Unusual |
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Anything like this fascinates me, so I've been googling and finding out all sorts of interesting information about temperature inversion layers and mirages. I have, however, only managed to find one other picture similar to yours which, needless to say, I am absolutely intrigued with. I hope you won't mind me putting it up as a mod, and I hope I'm not infringing any copyright by doing so. Thanks for sharing this, you must have been so excited to see it.
Pamela.
No problem. It's here for discussion and comment as any other image. I have no problem with anyone playing with a 600 pixel image - that is why I get a bit wound up when some put logos on them! Your mod - the Finland shot - is the same sort of thing - same circumstances by the look of it.
I'm in my mid-60's, and have never seen anything like this in the UK. Others seeing it at the time were quite frightened. I have a series of images taken at this time - another ship, several versions of the one above and a couple which show what I think are inverted oil or gas rigs which were actually over the horizon.
Paul
Hello Scutter,
Have you ever tried to get money out of the local press. They are notoriuosly bad at paying for anything.
I used to do a bit, 35 years ago, for a local paper. Didn't last long - had to develop and print images myself to a deadline and was making a loss. Many of my industrial images do appear in the local paper, but via my old employer who I still act as a freelance for - they pay well.
Paul
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