Thursday, August 29, 2013

Algae optics in Wisconsin

On the last day in Wisconsin I was out on a 4-wheeler ride when I saw a puddle back in the woods with a greenish film on it and decided to check it out to see if there was any optics in the algae film and lo and behold I saw a spectacular display of diffraction in the form of a corona around the sun's reflection, Quételet rings and a algae glory around my shadow. I could also see a fogbow like glow around the glory. I took quite a few pic's of this and I have always wanted to see some algae optics after seeing Marko Rikonnen's algae optics images that were taken from rocky islands in the Baltic Sea