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Three elements share this spring dawn, photographed for Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia, on the beach of Gavà, in the Baix Llobregat: the solar pillar, the candlestick and the stars.
A light pillar is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and/or below a light source.
The effect is created by the reflection of light from small ice crystals that are suspended in the atmosphere or comprise high-altitude clouds (for example, cirrostratus or cirrus clouds).
If the light is coming from the sun (usually when it is near or even below the horizon), the phenomenon is called a solar pillar.
For its part, dawn is also marked by the candilazo, a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that goes from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of scattering of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closest to the horizon, the light that reaches Earth is soft tones between red and orange.
In addition, we see condensation trails, created by planes after the kerosene combustion process. The gases expelled by the engine come out at a much higher temperature than that of the outside.
