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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can see this photograph taken at 5 p.m. on Sitges beach, on the Garraf coast.
With the arrival of autumn the season for surfers began. After a cool and gloomy day and with rough seas, a surfer, to the right of the image, waits to catch his last wave with the sunset in the background.
Another element that we observe in the photograph is the solar pillar that has been generated over the waters of the Mediterranean, a phenomenon that also seems to be contemplated by the surfer sitting on his surfboard floating in the sea.
A pillar light 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 that comprise high-altitude clouds (for example, cirrostratus or cirrus clouds).
If the light comes from the sun (generally when it is near or even below the horizon), the phenomenon is called a solar pillar, as in this case in Sitges.
