halgerndingar
A superior mirage occurs when the air below the line of sight is colder than that above. This is called a temperature inversion, since it does not represent the normal equilibrium temperature gradient of the atmosphere. Since in this case the light rays are bent down, the image appears above the true object, hence the name superior. They are in general less common than inferior mirages, but when they do occur they tend to be more stable, as cold air has no tendency to move up or warm air to move down.
Superior mirages are most common in polar regions, especially over large sheets of ice with a uniform low temperature. This type of mirage is also called the Fata Morgana or, in Icelandic, halgerndingar. Source: Wikipedia
I have been revising the footage I took on the boat a few days ago. Most of it will probably be unusable, but I am happy with some clips. In a couple of shots there is a superior mirage effect. In most of the outside shots, I don’t really know if it was the wind, the engine or just the light again, but the image is not steady, it trembles as if it were only a reflection. I fear that is how I will remember it. I will forget about the cold wind in my face, the dripping nose and the pain in my fingers holding the camera. The experience will then be reduced to this collection of images. The steady image of the intense blue moving fast below will start to tremble slowly in my memory. And the new memory itself would become then just a mirage of the video, but then isn’t that what memory is anyway, a changing mirage of what it once was? so the video would be my memory. But now I am merely rambling.
