{"id":15215,"date":"2015-03-22T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15215"},"modified":"2015-03-23T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T01:45:05","slug":"a-fogbow-a-glory-and-the-spectre-of-the-brocken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15215","title":{"rendered":"A Fogbow, A Glory and the Spectre of the Brocken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When doing a dawn hike on Mauna Kea it is important to choose your altitude with care.  You really want to be right at the top of the cloud layer.  There, where the fog drifts over in alternating shifts with the sunlight, there is where the magic happens.  Mamane in the fog, pu\u02bbu appearing and disappearing, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/droplets\/fogbow.htm\" target=\"_blank\">fogbows<\/a>. Add fog and you have all the ingredients for some good photography.<\/p>\n<p>The plan had been to spend the morning on the summit doing some testing.  When that got cancelled I quickly dropped into plan B&#8230; Go hiking.  I got the altitude right.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/droplets\/globrock.htm\" target=\"_blank\">spectre of the brocken<\/a> was a nice treat.  At the center of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/droplets\/fogbow.htm\" target=\"_blank\">fogbow<\/a> you can see a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/droplets\/glory.htm\" target=\"_blank\">glory<\/a>, and in the center of the glory is my shadow looming large in the mist.  That is the spectre.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15216\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PuuPalaoleloFogbow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PuuPalaoleloFogbow-600x208.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful fogbow, a glory and the spectre of the brocken on Pu\u02bbu Palaolelo\" width=\"600\" height=\"208\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PuuPalaoleloFogbow-600x208.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PuuPalaoleloFogbow-1200x415.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A beautiful fogbow, a glory and the spectre of the brocken on Pu\u02bbu Palaolelo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When doing a dawn hike on Mauna Kea it is important to choose your altitude with care. You really want to be right at the top of the cloud layer. There, where the fog drifts over in alternating shifts with the sunlight, there is where the magic happens. Mamane in the fog, pu\u02bbu appearing and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Fogbow, A Glory and the Spectre of the Brocken&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,10],"tags":[1989,1807,1987,88,1988],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15244,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15215\/revisions\/15244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}