This halo was only spotted because I was experimenting with a superwide lens to find some new way of photographing the old ruins. And there it was! The halo was dipping right down into the top of my viewfinder.
Halo Hunting
Solar halo over Lake Benmore and Omarama
While driving west along Lake Benmore on a spectacular day, my cell phone alerted me to my first ever view of a solar halo.
Read more ...
Solar halo over Cook Strait
Within 3 months I saw my second ever 22° Ice Crystal Halo around the sun.
Read more ...
Lunar halo over Maori Park
Luna halo over Caroline Bay
22 Degree Lunar Halo as seen from Caroline Bay on the night of 7 April 2001
Luna halo over Moeraki
Panoramic view of Moeraki Boulders on Koekohe Beach assembled before a rare 22 Degree Luna Halo. Two very unusual phenomena captured together, 9:45pm 5 September 2009, make for a very rare sight of the world’s best and largest examples of concretions