Nikolai Sklobovsky
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I can't believe it!
Not only I saw the green flash, I also captured it!
SoCal got an early rain yesterday, and due to this - highly unusual - circumstance the air got reeeeealy clear and we got nice puffy clouds instead of a clear sky on top and a haze over the horizon. For the first time in my life I could see an ocean edge right from our place (which is about 70 miles afar.
But that's not the best part.
Given the fact I got my 40D yesterday, I was keen to take it for a spin. So I went out around the sunset hoping to get some purple. And lo and behold, not only I got that, but I managed to see - and even to capture - the famous green flash! I never hoped to see it in my life, yet here I was, snapping frame after frame with my brand new 40D, observing this rather rare phenomenon.
And best of it, I got a picture to prove me right:
That tall structure on the foreground is a federal building in Oxnard, about 30 miles away.
Taken handheld, with Canon 40D and EF 70-200/2.8 IS USM
Not only I saw the green flash, I also captured it!
SoCal got an early rain yesterday, and due to this - highly unusual - circumstance the air got reeeeealy clear and we got nice puffy clouds instead of a clear sky on top and a haze over the horizon. For the first time in my life I could see an ocean edge right from our place (which is about 70 miles afar.
But that's not the best part.
Given the fact I got my 40D yesterday, I was keen to take it for a spin. So I went out around the sunset hoping to get some purple. And lo and behold, not only I got that, but I managed to see - and even to capture - the famous green flash! I never hoped to see it in my life, yet here I was, snapping frame after frame with my brand new 40D, observing this rather rare phenomenon.
And best of it, I got a picture to prove me right:
That tall structure on the foreground is a federal building in Oxnard, about 30 miles away.
Taken handheld, with Canon 40D and EF 70-200/2.8 IS USM
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