parhelion - sun dog, melbourne 19/07/2009

[vespine]

I was driving home about 4pm yesterday 19/07/09 and saw the best parhelion I've ever seen. It was passing through a cloud and very bright. For a moment I thought it was the sun behind those clouds. Unfortunately all i had was my phone so the photo isn't great, but i thought I'd share it anyway. The sun is out of frame to the right behind the trees.

EDIT: I DID pull over to take the photo

[firstlight (Tony)]

Nice capture.

I saw this one at the end of last month from a bus on my way to work... The others in the bus must have thought I was a lunatic holding my camera up at the window .

First one I've seen this year. Thanks for sharing yours.
Tony

[Tamtarn]

We saw our first one two months and were so mad that we didn't have our camera in the car Great captures guys