The Green Flash | Optical Phenomenon at Sunrise or Sunset
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By day, I live my life as a dedicated REALTOR in Sarasota, a paradisiacal town located on the west coast of Florida about an hour's drive south of Tampa-St. Petersburg.
I spend my days praising Florida's Cultural Coast and sharing how you, too, can enjoy the outdoors as well as the visual and performing arts on any given day. I love helping people find their special house and neighborhood from which to enjoy everything that Sarasota & Her Islands offers us.
I just embarked on a quest to photograph the legendary green flash so look for me on the beaches of Lido, Longboat and Siesta around sunset time. Perhaps you will join me in stalking the elusive green flash on the beaches of Sarasota & Her Islands.
You know the story created by Jules Verne about the blessing that come to people who see the green flash? Help me test that out by submitting your own stories about seeing the green flash and how the experience changed you. Go to the Green Flash Guestbook section below and tell all!
Photo: Detlev von Kessel
A Poll about The Green Flash
Photo: Louis Wery
Jules Verne Created the Popular Story about The Green Flash
The Green Flash on Captiva Island
No guarantee that you will see the green flash when the sun sets on the Intracoastal Waterway even when you dine at The Green Flash restaurant on Captiva Island, but you can sip a Green Flash cocktail, which is another name for a piña colada topped with melon liqueur. Info: 239.472.3337
Capture the Green Flash
Nikon D60 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S DX VR Nikkor Zoom Lens
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More About The Green Flash Phenomenon
- Atmospheric Optics
- Research all about the green flash and the different types of green flashes, how they form, their appearance, an image gallery and how to see them on the Atmospheric Optics website.
- Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Peter Michaud of Honolulu's Bishop Museum explains how to distinguish between seeing a real green flash versus the Fool's Flash.
The Legend of the Green Flash
Terri Marie shares the legend of the rare phenomenon known as the "Green Flash"
Read Laurie Lawson's Mystery Featuring the Green Flash
A talk by this author inspired Terri Marie's video about the legendary phenomenon
Green Flash
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The Green Flash Seen Around the World
Does Watching a Video Confer the Blessing? I Don't Think So!
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End "Green Flash" Scene
The Green Flash, an Independent Movie
The Optical Phenomenon Wins a Star Turn
From Manhattan, New York to Manhattan Beach, California, Cameron's journey is inspired by an artistic beach beauty named Mia, who leads Cameron down a path of self awareness and enlightens him on the phenomenon of the Green Flash: a fleeting moment of brilliance in nature.
Enjoy the sports trailer, too, with athletes like Olympic Gold Medalist Misty May-Treanor in cameo.
Where Did You See The Green Flash for the First Time?
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SayGuddaycom
Jan 27, 2012 @ 10:15 pm | delete
- I'm a sailor and I religiously watch every sunset and every sunrise every day. You can imagine how annoyed I am that I have not seen the flash yet =(
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aerome
Dec 16, 2010 @ 7:39 pm | delete
- Haven't seen it yet, but surely a good phenomenon to look out for. :D
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paperfacets Oct 4, 2010 @ 10:52 am | delete
- Haven't seen it yet, but now I know what to look for. Thanks, Sherry
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skiesgreen
Jul 14, 2010 @ 11:50 pm | delete
- It's an interesting subject and many ancient people's believed in it. That's why Green is such a sacred color in religious ceremonies. *-*Blessed*-* and featured on Sprinkled with Stardust and also on Skiesgreen
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Lights in the Sky: Identifying and Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena
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Lights in the Sky: Identifying and Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series)
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Many lights and other objects in the sky go unrecognized, or at least are little understood by those observing them. Such things range from the commonplace like rainbows and meteors, to the distinctly unusual like the green flash and ball lightning. And there is still a residuum of objects that remain unidentified by the watcher - classed generally as 'UFOs', a description which today has connotations of the mysterious, even of extraterrestrial visitors.
A Flash of Green
By John D. MacDonald
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James Wing told himself he was only trying to help his friend's widow when he warned Kat Hubble that the beautiful bay she and her neighbors had struggled to save was going to be sold to developers. He knew he shouldn't have told her anything. He was a reporter, trained to reveal nothing. But he was falling in love with her. Now the developers have set their sights on Kat Hubble, and they'll do anything, use anyone, to stop her from interfering in their plans . . . .
Lost - The Complete Third Season
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When it aired in 2006-07, Lost's third season was split into two, with a hefty break in between. This did nothing to help the already weirdly disparate direction the show was taking (Kate and Sawyer in zoo cages! Locke eating goop in a mud hut!), but when it finally righted its course halfway through--in particular that whopper of a finale--the drama series had left its irked fan base thrilled once again. This doesn't mean, however, that you should skip through the first half of the season to get there, because quite a few questions find answers: what the Others are up to, the impact of turning that fail-safe key, the identity of the eye-patched man from the hatch's video monitor. One of the series' biggest curiosities from the past--how Locke ended up in that wheelchair in the first place--also gets its satisfying due. (The episode, "The Man from Tallahassee," likely was a big contributor to Terry O'Quinn's surprising--but long-deserved--Emmy win that year.)
