"Post and Halo"...

 "Post and Halo"

Sometimes nature can surprise us, showing us something that we've never seen or experienced.  While driving through Kayenta, Arizona, I experienced a very brief snow storm at sunset, while the sun was shining. My experience first wanted to photograph into the sunset to capture the wonderful highlights of snow and sleet glistening in the setting sun, but as I spun around, I saw something unexpected. There was a strong, centralized illuminance of light just beyond this fence nearby.

You can see an interesting, tall tree trunk was being used as a fence post. If you look closely, you can also see brief, dark, vertical streaks near center, where the snow was captured as it fell during exposure. Another interesting observation of the light 'phenomenon', is how it almost resembles the shape of the bush in the foreground, almost as if it were bursting up from the ground as well. Slight underexposure accentuates the disparity of light in the storm near the area I was standing. This was photographed in the infrared light spectrum, which often provides views that our eyes cannot see in the visible light spectrum.

Was something being presented to me? Was this a updraft of wind during the midst of a snow at sunset? Was Mother Nature wanting to show-off her creative weather talents? Questions...


Kayenta is the only "township" existing under the laws of the Navajo Nation.
Kayenta, Arizona, February 2024.
Photo # IM7aa_0068-71bwg.
(c) Kelly Shipp