Fuller writes of this photographed titled, simply, “Cock’s Eye Halo”:  A 22-degree halo created by ‘diamond dust’. The halo is the child of several forms of crystals floating in the sub-zero air. Some of the crystals act as mirrors that reflect the light as they tumble through the air, others shaped differently, act as prisms that refract the light into its rainbow colors. Voila!  On foot or on skis there is magic, wonder…despite the pain of the cold, to behold such plays of light, ephemeral aerial optical manifestations. Thanks to HAL, aka Goggle, I just learned that the Cornish, those fey Celts west of the Tamar on the Lizard Peninsula—since the English conquest the furthest southwest of England—a halo round the sun was called a ‘cock’s eye’; presumably, they were domesticated fowl folk.”
Fuller writes of this photographed titled, simply, “Cock’s Eye Halo”: A 22-degree halo created by ‘diamond dust’. The halo is the child of several forms of crystals floating in the sub-zero air. Some of the crystals act as mirrors that reflect the light as they tumble through the air, others shaped differently, act as prisms that refract the light into its rainbow colors. Voila! On foot or on skis there is magic, wonder…despite the pain of the cold, to behold such plays of light, ephemeral aerial optical manifestations. Thanks to HAL, aka Goggle, I just learned that the Cornish, those fey Celts west of the Tamar on the Lizard Peninsula—since the English conquest the furthest southwest of England—a halo round the sun was called a ‘cock’s eye’; presumably, they were domesticated fowl folk.”