Comments on: Fata Morgana: Arctic Mirage http://davewalshphoto.com/2010/01/17/fata_morgana/ Nature, environment, Icebergs. Polar and environmental photographer: Dave Walsh, Ireland Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:11:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dave Walsh http://davewalshphoto.com/2010/01/17/fata_morgana/#comment-5700 Dave Walsh Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:11:16 +0000 http://davewalshphoto.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-5700 Thanks Chris, for this comment. This must have been a very weird – and amazing – experience!

]]> By: Chris Chapman http://davewalshphoto.com/2010/01/17/fata_morgana/#comment-5699 Chris Chapman Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:07:08 +0000 http://davewalshphoto.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-5699 I just wanted to let you know that when working from near Nogliki, Sakhakin Island, around 4pm during the early summer, 2005, I witnessed a Superior Mirage that reflected the Shell Molipak drilling platform and nearby vessels which were all below the horizon, reflected like a mirror in the sky above. These images were very clear and the height was about at an eleven o’clock from my position at the Yastreb drilling site. This spectacular show continued for about five hours, with new vessels coming into view as they sailed through this area. All these vessels were no even visible from our site in normal mode, just inverted on the sky above. The show finally went away when light failed.

My only regret I did not have any camera, and the one we had at the rig site, I was so reluctant to get it being two km away in case the mirages vanished.

Rgds

Chris

]]> By: Lisa http://davewalshphoto.com/2010/01/17/fata_morgana/#comment-2898 Lisa Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:45:05 +0000 http://davewalshphoto.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-2898 I love this nature effect.. :D I saw this “fata Morgana” also on highways when is very hot outside..very interesting phenomenon.. :)

]]> By: Dave http://davewalshphoto.com/2010/01/17/fata_morgana/#comment-12 Dave Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:06:50 +0000 http://davewalshphoto.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-12 Hi Mimi – that’s correct, that was the same scene, the same iceberg, changing shape, continuously.
- Dave

]]> By: Mimi http://davewalshphoto.com/2010/01/17/fata_morgana/#comment-11 Mimi Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:19:56 +0000 http://davewalshphoto.com/wordpress/?p=16#comment-11 just wondering – is image 12, 13 and 14 of the same landscape?

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