Anticrepuscular Rays, Ringoes, New Jersey
Imaged by Alexander Harrison.
©Alexander Harrison




They might be better called anticrepuscular shadows. When the sun is low, clouds cast long shadow across the sky generating volumes of dark air.   

The shadows are parallel but, like a long straight road or railway tracks, they appear to converge at the point opposite the sun.



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