Strange wavey effect ;/

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Hmmm, i was taking some random snaps earlier down in weymouth, and the pictures came out rather strange, the horizons are all wavey and messed up :(

It was ****ing freezing, could it be the temperature that has played a part with the image? maybe some kind of temperature effect on light bending stuff?

view then in full view to see what i mean

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89671699@N02/

anybody know the reason?

Many thanks
 
It's actually just heat haze. As it was freezing cold this sounds a bit weird but it isn't necessarily heat as such that causes the distortion, it's just differences in air temperature that can happen even when it's actually very cold.

I had the same effect here with this shot, in fact it's more severe here! :lol:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulnichols/7630137466/in/photostream/lightbox/
 
Very common with long shots. Refraction of light trough different air density layers. The air has to be very still and very even to get away with long telephoto shots without this happening.
 
That effect was talked about in detail on a Titanic documentary I was watching the other evening.
Apparently one of the crew on another ship was adamant he'd seen one type of ship when in fact it was another.
It is as has been said, due to cold air and warmer water meeting, it causes a mirage effect.
Here's some really good examples.
 
Call that a wavy effect? Naaaa, THIS is a wavy effect captured by me a couple of years ago.

Dungeness Power station as viewed from Folkestone.

May+mirage+2.jpg


And towards the Channel itself:

May+mirage+1.jpg


It's just a mirage effect caused by light being refracted by heat rising from a warm English Channel straight into the cold air sitting above it.
 
Love the cat photos :thumbs:
 
ahhhhhhh, thankyou!!! much appreciated!

and thankyou for sharing your pics, those are some pretty good mirage effects and wavey one too!
 
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