Mountain Shadows

Mountain Shadows - No it Sauron reach in front of Mount Doom. It's just the shadow of Mount Rainier in the northwest US, thrown on the underside of the clouds at sunrise.

In brief moment of sunrise and sunset, the sun's rays, sneaking past the edge of the curved earth can shine up to a platform horizontal stratus or altostratus clouds, illuminating from below. If bumps mountain near his head on the cloud deck, it can cast a shadow across it. As sunbeams and shadowbeams, the lines of the shadows converge on the position of the sun.


Viewed from the summit of Mount Rainier, facing away from the sun at sunset, glances cast triangular shadow. This triangular shape is not the mountain the profile that you see, but, again, these are the lines of perspective from the banks of the great mass of shady air run back to infinity thanks to the lighter steam luminous.
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Links and credits
More photos of Rainier casting shadows on Geekologie
The second photo of the shadow of the mountain is by Dale Ireland optics atmospheric
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Previously on GurneyJourney:
Reflects Sunbeams
Shadowbeams
Sunbeams