Pink Snow

Seen from just in front of our house on the Isle of Lewis, the snow on the mountains on the mainland catching the light of the setting sun. Telephoto – they’re forty miles away or thereabouts.

If you look along the mainland coast, you can see a line of mirages – the dark, snowless coast seeming to float above a narrow strip of snow, which is actually an inverted image of the snow above, reflected in a layer of warm (well, not quite so cold) air just above the water.

January 1987

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©Clive K Semmens 1987