Ontario-based photographer Timothy Joseph Elzinga did not expect to lay his eyes on breathtaking shafts of light suspended in mid-air when he was woken up by his two-year-old boy at the wee hours of the morning. He quickly snapped some pictures of what turned out to be an atmospheric optical phenomenon called “light pillar”. /CFP Photo

“These lights were shooting into the sky, blasting hundreds of feet in the air, and they were shimmering and moving," said Elzinga. /CFP Photo

Light Pillars are colorful light beams that are formed when artificial or natural light reflects off ice crystals hovering close to the ground. /CFP Photo