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Note: Don't believe that what a photograph shows is what you will experience in real life. I visited Bahía Bioluminiscente[0] on an island off of Puerto Rico a
by googlryas 4y ago
Note: Don't believe that what a photograph shows is what you will experience in real life.
I visited Bahía Bioluminiscente[0] on an island off of Puerto Rico and you could definitely tell something strange was going on, but it was not at all comparable to photographs of the same thing. I would say it is more akin to the glint of a half moon off the water where you disturbed it more than a kind of bluegreen LED in the water.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Mosquito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Mosquito
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Surfing_on_bioluminescent_wave.webm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Surfing_on_bioluminescent...
- bejelentkezni 4y agoDo you reckon polarized glasses would have helped? Even if they're color graded or something, those photos are probably using polarized lenses.
- nummerfuenf 4y agoThere's no such thing as polarized lenses, only polarization filters. Also, Light from bioluminescence isn't polarized. I assume the pictures taken for Wikipedia just had very long exposure times.
- googlryas 4y agoNo - I think the photos just look like that because they use a long exposure time or high sensor sensitivity (high ISO)
- samcheng 4y agoI think it depends on the tides / blooms. We visited that same spot on a moonless night, and swam in it - there were sparkles in the water when you disturbed it, and a diffuse green glow all around. I've also been on the beach at Point Reyes where you could see the waves glowing and the sand sparkling with our footsteps. (That particular red tide gave me a bit of a rash on my legs, unfortunately.) I agree that a camera can really exaggerate this kind of phenomena, and also the aurora, but, if the conditions are right, these things ARE indeed spectacular to witness with your bare eyes.