Photo Post: Rio Rainbow
So there I was, up on the roof watering the plants, when I looked up and noticed that the clouds that had been gathering for the last couple of hours had started to clear. It was getting late in the day and I had been wondering if it would rain, but then the sun kind of peeped through below the clouds and lit up the Sugarloaf. I ran to get my camera. I know I bombard you guys with a lot of photos of my local monolith, but it is rather photogenic I’m sure you’ll agree.
So, I was just about to put my camera down and get back to the plants when I looked over towards the bay and noticed a weird patch of rainbow in the sky. It clearly wasn’t raining anywhere, yet here was a small patch of rainbow!
Not hugely remarkable – maybe there was a weird isolated shower over in that direction? Anyway, I kept watching and it started to get bigger and weirder…
Then I looked up! You’ll have to tilt your head for this next one, but hopefully you’ll get the basic idea.
As I asked myself “What does it mean?” and exclaimed “Double rainbow, all the way!”, I did a quick set of shots to be stitched together (this is a composite of around 6 photos – check out the tiny Sugarloaf at the bottom right to get a sense of the scale here):
You can click this one to see it in higher resolution.
As all this was going on, I glanced behind me and saw the whole other half of the sky had gone orange! What an amazing way to end the day.
Wow!
Awesome!
Nice pic of a prismed-up skybow you’ve got there.
Ha ha! Nice to see you’re using the approved lingo there Shauny! :)
p.s. I just looked ‘skybow’ up and apparently it’s like clay pigeon shooting but using bow and arrows. Looks quite fun actually! Also, some kind of mad spinning kite… Skybow.
Hi, stutnning photos!! Your view is really photogenic! Unfortunately I was off Rio yesterday and didn`t enjoy this amazing sky!! Great photos!
Thanks Cristina! :) Yes, we are very lucky with our view.
The rainbow is high.