WTF is this?

niforpix · Feb 16, 2009

So I was at the beach in White Rock with my wife tonight, and was taking some shots for my photography class... And just as the sunset was going down, this guy that was watching it pointed out to us this white dot in the sky. It wasn't giving out any light, it was just a white circular object.

Any ideas?

LoganJ · Feb 16, 2009

Obviously a UFO out to get you. Kidding

niforpix · Feb 16, 2009

Damn it! I knew it!
Hmm... it was weird tho. It wasn't moving or giving off any light. Just a white object in the sky...

LaFoto · Feb 16, 2009

It has something akin to a normal cloud to it, I should say (from your enlargement). Though I, too, would wonder how it got there. But then I once saw the development of a cloud out of "nothing", just sky, blue, no other cloud in sight, before. It's when different air layers (of different density and temperature) come together. From below, air looks like air. You can's "see" the density, humidity (if it is light enough), temperature. It all looks the same. Yet sometimes it isn't and suddenly a cloud forms. I should guess something like that happened.

Battou · Feb 16, 2009

LaFoto said:
It has something akin to a normal cloud to it, I should say (from your enlargement). Though I, too, would wonder how it got there. But then I once saw the development of a cloud out of "nothing", just sky, blue, no other cloud in sight, before. It's when different air layers (of different density and temperature) come together. From below, air looks like air. You can's "see" the density, humidity (if it is light enough), temperature. It all looks the same. Yet sometimes it isn't and suddenly a cloud forms. I should guess something like that happened.

The same thing is the secret of the "sound barrier breech" photos, it's not actually the soundbarrier that causes it, it's the way the air density, temprature and moisture content come together as the aricraft passes through creating that cloud on the wings out of thin air (so to speak).

I too thought spontanious cloud at first sight.

jseoung · Feb 16, 2009

UFO!!!

manaheim · Feb 16, 2009

Santa Claus?

btw, neat shot. clone that thing out.

Ko-ning · Feb 16, 2009

It's a white entity of water, usually referred to as 'cloud'.
Nice photo.

Akoz · Feb 16, 2009

i would say just a small cloud

Artograph · Feb 16, 2009

...It's quite clearly a ghost!!

LOL!!! Just kidding!!

:O)

Flash Harry · Feb 17, 2009

Looks like a sugar puff to me. H

tasman · Feb 17, 2009

Satellite junk falling to earth?

rppaint · Feb 17, 2009

All you see here is nothing more than a weather balloon! :sexywink:

haha

TamiyaGuy · Feb 17, 2009

First off, might I say that that is a damn nice photo. A bit of a saturation boost, and I'd be happy to buy that as a print. It certainly looks like a cloud, but I'll be damned if I knew what caused it, sorry.

Also, I had to laugh at your thread title. I half-expected a "OMG MY CAMERA IS RUBBISH I PUT IT ON MANUAL AND I PRESSED THE BUTTON AND MY PICS ARE ALL BLACK I WANT A REFUND"

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nrois02 · Feb 18, 2009

any planes fly by real fast? i dont know where your from but it looks like a plane breaking the sound of speed how they give off that cloud. like area 51 was doing testing around where you were. haha