Re: Rainbow this evening, W Somerset

jack.harrison@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 7 Mar, 17:43, " cupra" <NOcupra.sS...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Vivid colours (only auto-saturated the image, it *was* this
colourful!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/treetops_photos/2316259493/

That is a superb photo. I would never have thought that pylons could
add to a scene but they do in this case and very well too.

Thanks Jack... it was the only place I could safely stop where I could see
the whole thing. I think my caption says it all, nature applying a temporary
paintbrush to the landscape!


A little experiment worth trying next time there's a rainbow. Look at
it through a polarising filter (or polarised sunglasses) and rotate
the lens. It provides a superb demonstration that the light from a
rainbow is polarised. I have yet to try the experiment with a sundog
(parhelia) or other atmospheric optical phenomena.

Jack

I actually did use a circular polarising filter on the lens when taking the
image, and I did indeed have some fun playing around with it (now you see
it, now you don't)!


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