lens aberrations

I woke up to this sight a month or so ago, a 22 degree halo around Sol. It looked like a giant eyeball staring down at me. The halo forms as sunlight is refracted in millions of randomly oriented hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere, so says Wikipedia. The circular form was so perfect, colorful and striking I immediately reached for my iphone and made several captures. It was so massive that a single frame would not fit it all, so I switched to panorama mode and was able to capture the full circle. I played with several approaches and chose this one for today’s Game image, attempting to “touch” our local fusion reactor with my finger. My photograph seemed a natural transition from Robert’s image both in form and subject, adding a connecting narrative from his “Time Tool” to the actual source of light for the sundial.