藍天白日銀雲下的金海與銀海 ... Golden and silvery sea underneath the white sun, and clouds with silver lining in the blue sky.

(English at the bottom)

光與影原來足以欣賞主的精妙設計、見證主的創造奇工！

三月寒流後三種不同奇景的第二部曲，

由藍天、白日、銀雲、金海、銀海五位主角合演！

繼3月9日及10日相繼拍攝沒有甚麼雲的「金頂」、「銀海」後，

3月11日喜見發光雲鑲銀邊，

捨不得忍手不拍攝，

但陽光太猛烈根本不能直視實景，

因此拍照後始透過屏幕看結果，

原來竟是奇趣一幕！

11 Mar 2018     7:46 a.m.

因為「黑」雲遮擋白日上半部分，
白日猶如燈罩下的燈泡！
其實晴天之下何來黑雲？
皆因白雲背光變成「黑」雲：

7:51 a.m.

上圖那小片雲被照耀下，四周鑲上銀邊，
如英語所言 'Every cloud has a silver lining'，
直譯「每朵雲也有銀邊」，
根據牛津詞典解釋，
意思是烏雲背後總有一線光芒，
喻意在逆境中總有值得寬慰或有希望的一面。
此情此景，是何等鼓勵！

除了上望銀雲鑲銀邊，原來下望海面鑲金邊？
因為水波反映斜照陽光，
亦漸出現閃爍金沙(放大照片看始知是金色，因肉眼只見反光)，
但只消六分鐘，金海範圍已擴大：

7:53 a.m.

反光位置沿著岸邊，
(月前反光位置是靠右邊在海中而非靠左沿岸邊)，
如替陸地鑲上金邊！

7:55 a.m.

於是上有銀白雲，下有黃金海，
而船隻破浪前進，如箭射出，
拖著長長的尾巴，水波圖案令畫面更添藝術美：

7:57 a.m.

最後，隨著太陽升高，陽光更猛烈，

金色逐漸褪變成銀色(宜放大照片看)，

金海變銀海，是甚麼光學原理呢？

8:10 a.m.

日升、山峰、波光，

三景物出現近乎同一直線，

一年只有兩段時間：
大約三月與十月，

因此並不是四季常見；

如要銀雲白日金海，

更要良好天色配合。

當然照片顏色及光暗，

與肉眼所見其實頗有偏差，

皆因手機測光曝光有限制，

人眼睛的感光細胞比機器處理更好，不受背光影響；

不過人眼雖能清晰細緻見到暗處景物，

但所見的顏色沒有機器加工後效果美，

因用風景模式拍攝會將景色變得更藍，

令顏色更飽和更美 – 黃更金，藍更藍。

主的創意無限，設計精妙之處，

實在值得人深思細意欣賞。
主讓我看見，並非只為獨享，
實在值得分享！

後記：

昨天(2018年3月16日)，靈命日糧的文章《看見奇妙》中提到：
『我們有些人只是看到這個世界這裡不好，那裡出錯，但《國家地理》雜誌的攝影師德威特．瓊斯（DeWitt Jones），卻用他的專長來頌揚這世界的美好事物。他等候和觀察，直到光影或角度的改變，突然呈現那一直存在但不受人注意的奇妙景象。他用相機在人群與自然界當中，尋找美麗的畫面。』…... 最後，在旋風的混亂與暴風的黑暗裡，上帝要約伯思想自然界的奧妙，這奧妙反映了那遠遠超越人類的智慧與能力（約伯記38章2-4節）。上帝現在也要我們思想自然界的奧妙嗎？小狗、小貓、落葉和小草，在這些平凡無奇的事物之中，我們是否能因光影或角度的改變，看見創造主的心意呢？即使在痛苦當中，我們是否能看見這位創造主一直與我們同在，並幫助我們呢？天父，我們花太多時間想著這個世界哪裡有問題、出了什麼狀況。求祢幫助我們，在唯有祢才能創造的一切奇妙事物中，看見祢的同在。大自然的奇妙景象讓人驚嘆不已。』

Golden and silvery sea underneath the white sun and clouds with silver lining in the blue sky. 

After witnessing very beautiful sunrise on 9 Mar and 10 Mar, 

I saw a silver lining cloud on 11 May. 

The sight was cute as the white sun looked like 

a light bulb under the lamp shade, 

i.e. the ‘black’ cloud hanging above the summit. 

The cloud was not black really, 

but the ‘backlight’ made it appeared black in color. 

Looking above, there were silver lining clouds in the sky: 

looking below, there was glittering gold sand on the sea. 

But the golden color soon turned silver! 

What is the reason behind this phenomenon? 

The white sun, the summit, and the golden/silver 

reflection on the sea all appeared in an almost straight line. 

This sight is not commonly seen, only within two periods in a year, 

which are approximately in March and October. 

Moreover, in order to see silver lining clouds, 

a white sun, a blue sky , and golden sands glittering on the sea, 

fine weather and good air quality are required. 

So the amazing scenery on this day (11 Mar) was in fact precious sight. 

That’s why blog is used instead of Instagram or Facebook, 

otherwise the special phenomenon behind these photos 

could not be well explained nor appreciated.

P.S.

The article 'Wonders in focus' in yesterday's ' (16 March 2018) ‘Our Daily Bread’ coincided well with the theme of my blog yesterday and what I have been doing through photo taking and writing blogs about the scenery that I have seen! How wonderful!

“Some of us are inclined to look at the world and see only what’s wrong. DeWitt Jones is a National Geographic photographer who has used his profession to celebrate what’s right about the world. He waits and watches until a shaft of light or turn of perspective suddenly reveals a wonder that had been there all along. He uses his camera to find beauty in the most common faces of people and nature…God asked Job to consider wonders of nature that reflect a wisdom and power far beyond our own (Job 38:2–4). Would He now ask us? What about something as natural as the ways of a dog, cat, fluttering leaf, or blade of grass? Could a shaft of light, or a turn of perspective, reveal—even in our pain—the mind and heart of a Creator who has been with us and for us all along? Father in heaven, we’ve spent too much time thinking only about what is wrong and broken with our world. Please help us to see evidence of Your presence in the wonder of what only You could have done. In the faces of nature there are wonders that never cease.”