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Webshots Featured Homepage POTD 06 October 2007 ~ Featured Member's Choice Most Viewed and Most Downloaded Outdoors and Outdoors Fall Scenics 04 October 2007 ~ A spectacular bolt of scarlet red light beams straight up into the night sky at sunset. Image is unaltered, unedited, with no post-processing. ~ "Reds, yellows and golds arise because the air itself, small dust and aerosol particles smaller than the wavelengths of visible light, 'Rayleigh scatterers', scatter short wavelength blue and green rays much more strongly than longer wavelength yellow and red. The remaining direct unscattered light is dimmed but relatively enriched in reds and yellows. Absorption of specific green and blue wavelengths by ozone and water vapour molecules redden the light further. The sunset rays are sometimes reflected back and forth between clouds and the ground. All this goes to makes a spectacle seemingly painted with every colour and shade of the palette. Pillars are created by reflections from approximately horizontal crystal faces but the side faces of columns are inclined at all angles. The key is that the crystals have orderly orientations - they do not tumble. A 'singly oriented column' drifts with its long axis nearly horizontal and has two rotational freedoms. Its long axis can point in all azimuthal, NSEW, directions. The crystal adopts all rotational positions around the long axis." A sun pillar is a vertical shaft of light extending upward or downward from the sun. Typically seen during sunrise or sunset, sun pillars form when sunlight reflects off the surfaces of falling ice crystals associated with thin, high-level clouds such as cirrostratus. The hexagonal plate-like ice crystals fall with a horizontal orientation, gently rocking from side to side as they fall. When the sun is low on the horizon, an area of brightness appears in the sky above (or below) the sun as sunlight is reflected off the surfaces of these tipped ice crystals. ~ http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/blusky.html ~

"Sun pillars are vertical columns of light that appear above or below the sun, or both, when the sun is near the horizon. They are caused by reflection of sunlight from the near horizontal surfaces of ice crystals and are similar to the glitter path of sunlight reflected on water. Light pillars are also associated with the moon." ~ Traditional Hawaiian Philosophy The KUMULIPO is a mele ko'ihonua (genealogical chant). It is a remembrance from the lipo (dark depth) of our deep past to the lipo of our unknown future. It heralds existence from dawn to dawn or the numerous beginnings and endings. The Kumulipo acknowledges the 'walewale' as the earthy matter from which all forms have ascended. The fundamental images, thoughts, forms and shapes from walewale evolved and increased into familial patterns. It is the organic inception of all family systems. The KUMULIPO articulates and reveals the connections of the sky and earth, the earth and ocean, the ocean and land, the land and man, man and gods and returns again to repeat the interrelationship of all things is an everlasting continuum, it is Ponahakeola, the chaotic whirlwind of life. The KUMULIPO echoes the complexities and details of the Hawaiian thought process. His skillful observation and examination brought understanding and respect to everything in his world. He realised that the powers for growth and bounty were the basic universal elements. The moon cycle was the principle motivator of the earth. It generated extreme movements of the ocean, and caused the eyes of the land and sea to bloom and it dictated the time for earth to commence or rest from production. The sun and rain were the penetrating nourishing forces into the earth. The wind, ocean currents and rivers provided mobility for things and objects incapable of movement. The Hawaiian and all other natural forms of his world were the beneficiaries of this primal cadence and flow with the rhythm of the universe. The KUMULIPO maintains the theme of survival, urgency for life and preservation of all species with procreation and evolution as the sinew. The dualistic nature of this chant supports this theme. The dichotomy of land-ocean pairing strengthened the notion for procreation and survival of the species. The drama of manipulation between Wa'kea, sky-father and Papa, earth mother, is the ultimate example of procreation and regeneration. The assimilation with the taro child, the folding in of many generations of forms of Haumea and Hina, with their multiple nature forms continue the episode of preservation, evolution and survival. The KUMULIPO is the reality of our dim past, the foundation for our present and the pathway into the future. It is a cognizant reminder of our ancestors, their intelligence, failure, defeat and conquest. This chant is a gift which encourages the warrior within us to awake to the contests and challenges, which continue to confront us today, by using ancestral intelligence and experiences with our own intelligence. It is the genealogy which connects the Native Hawaiian to land, sky and ocean." ~ Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele ~ http://www.edithkanakaolefoundation.org/projects/kumulipo/index.htm