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Photographer Robert McCabe’s best shot

An engineer from Herefordshire manages to catch a sun halo while carrying out maintenance work.

Sun halos occur when water droplets in high-altitude cirrus clouds freeze and form crystals.

Paul Simons, the Times weatherman, said: “As the sunlight goes through the ice crystals it is as if it’s going through a glass prism. The light is beamed out into an arc. The best Sun halos can be found in the Arctic and Antarctic — but in Britain at the moment we have the ideal conditions.”

Photo: Ian Collins via the Times website

Makes me think of Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa.

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Civita di Bagnoregio…. la città che muore (via Frances64Co assente)

Wildlife photographer Greg du Toit submerged himself in a watering hole for three hours a day for three months to capture the perfect picture of wild lions drinking. However, he contracted Bilharzia and several other parasites and was bed bound for weeks. How far would you go to capture the perfect picture?