Landscapers, what do you call this??

A little question for all the landscape photographers. What do you call that ray and cloud formation as shown in this picture?
Come clean if you had to Google it, please?

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Steve

I call it "pretty"... :) Great shot, Steve!

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Originally Posted by neuroanatomist

I call it "pretty"... :) Great shot, Steve!

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Thank you John, very nice of you.
Not the word I had in mind though.:confused:

In the games industry we always called them "God Rays". No idea what anybody else calls them.

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Originally Posted by Steve U

Not the word I had in mind though.:confused:

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Oh, ok... Maybe you had crepuscular in mind? I didn't Google it, although I wasn't positive on my spelling. Fortunately, all I had to get was crepus and my iPhone took care of the rest. ;)

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Originally Posted by neuroanatomist

I call it "pretty"... :) Great shot, Steve!

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Damn, that's exactly what I was going to say.
And coincidentally, I shot some like that this morning too (I was already late for work so what's wrong with another 5 mins taking a photo on the way?)

Those things have always reminded me of either a Bugs Bunny cartoon, think the 'What's Opera Doc' scene with the rays shining down on the fat horse. Otherwise I half except a foot to come down out of them and step on something...

Spot on John, good work. I still like pretty though.

+1 for "pretty"

I also call it "irritating", because the camera never has the dynamic range to capture this in its total full glory.

I call it Luck combined with a skilled photographer to create a beautiful shot!:)

Agree with all the others, but where you looking for sunbreak? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbreak
Google did help https://www.google.com/search?q=sun+...iw=320&bih=343

Or Stevesome

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Originally Posted by DavidEccleston

In the games industry we always called them "God Rays". No idea what anybody else calls them.

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For all those who are old enough, we call it a "Charlton Heston" scene

Thank you all for your comments and input.

Crepuscular rays are rays of light radiating from a single point and appear mostly through gaps in clouds at sunset and sunrise. They can be red or yellow or just bright rays shining down or penetrating a cloud. There endeth...

I only became aware of this in the last month, so I thought I would share the love, or knowledge in this case.

I call them Steve Almighty Rays! these are killer buddy.

I had one remark on a flickr image of mine with similar rays, "great Jacob's Ladder!" so now i call these thingies JL Rays.