Brocken Spectre

Our Ecologist and Land Manager, Luke Sutton, captured this amazing image on Christmas day at Chinkwell Tor.
It captures the phenomenon known as a Brocken Spectre, which is an optical illusion caused by the sun shining from behind a person and projecting their shadow onto fog. The shadow appears to look like a giant person, or spectre. Dartmoor Preservation Association

I suppose this would freak the ancient mind. I never heard of it but it doesn’t take much to understand what it is.

Giant Mountains Landscape with Rising Fog (1820) by Caspar David Friedrich
Good conditions.

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