Diane and Susan sent me Stonefield Farms in Stow to see the newly-blooming flower baskets hanging from the greenhouse ceilings.
While I snapped away, I reminded the woman working the cash register of the rainbow photo I’d given them two years ago, and I told her how frequently I see rainbows.
That evening, as if on cue, a double bow appeared over our neighbor’s house.
Jennifer
“Non Controversial”? I beg to differ. (But I haven’t decided how, yet. Shall I focus on “ceiling” or something about rainbows … ?)
rakkity
That garden center shot is fabulous. Looks like something Monet or Renoir would have painted. But do I detect a wee bit of tweaking the saturation button? Is the floor of the greenhouse really that pale lavender shade? Or is it actually the light reflected from the flowers?
End-of-the-Rainbow Stonefield Farms should pay you a royalty for the free advertisements.
michael
I run my photos through Photoshop’s auto correction mode, and I always add some sharpening because I was told digital photos require it, but that’s about it. As I compare it to the original, right out of the box photo, the most glaring change is how much straightening it needed. I have more but that’s the best one because of its short depth of field.
rakkity
Speaking again of rainbows…
Mike, I noticed that your Stonefield rainbow shows at least 2 inner arcs, which are usually hard to see, but they are a great example of something that posed a quandry to the 17th C guys (Newton, Young, &co) who tried to explain them.
I super-saturated your rainbow and can see two inner arcs. A spectacular photo posted at
http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/raylee/RainbowBridge/Chapter_8.html
shows 4 inner arcs! That site gives the only explanation I’ve ever understood about why they are there.
You now have a new mission, should you choose to accept it: shoot a ‘bow with 3 or more inner arcs!
rakkity
Jennifer’s question…
Come to think of it, the same explanation Raylee gives for the inner arcs also answer’s Jennifer’s question about why the area outside the main rainbow is dark:
The rays reflected from the raindrops in the sky are “folded over” on themselves. The doubled rays in the fold cause “interference” that makes the inner arcs, and the darkness is explained because that region has zero rays, and the inside of the bow has doubled rays.
You really need a picture (..raylee/RainbowBridge..) to understand what I’m saying.