![]() ![]() The 55-year old American who has been hooked on photography since he was seven, says that he first heard about this illusion from a professional photographer whilst on a whale watching trip. It is therefore no wonder that it took amateur photographer Mark Turner days of sailing in the waters of Petersburg, Alaska to get this perfect shot. The setting sun has to be at the right place when a humpback whale is spouting. In order for something this mystical to occur everything has to align perfectly. What is happening is that the light from the setting sun is being refracted through the jet of moist air created when the humpback whale is spouting, resulting in what appears to be an eerie fire-like glow in the background. However, it is neither - Instead it is an optical illusion created by a scientific principle that you may all have heard of - Refraction. ![]()
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