{"id":37113,"date":"2024-07-06T11:50:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37113"},"modified":"2024-07-07T00:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T04:27:47","slug":"this-evenings-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/07\/this-evenings-display\/","title":{"rendered":"This evening’s display"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Late this afternoon or early this evening – before sunset, anyway – we had some storms roll through, looking quite ominous for a bit, but what we ended up with were summer showers. The scattered nature of the thunderheads did let the sun poke through, and so we got a quite vivid rainbow for a decent amount of time, but granted, I boosted contrast on these for better display – in this case, as much to make the northern cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis<\/em>) stand out as to enhance the rainbow. The male didn’t want to pose out in the open like the female down there, but I snagged him as he crossed the bow, just not sharply.<\/p>\n

The neighbor’s crepe myrtle tree (Lagerstroemia indica<\/em>) was in the same direction as the bow, and so I didn’t even have to leave Walkabout Estates to frame a foreground element.<\/p>\n

There were two items of note in the few minutes while the bow was visible, however.<\/p>\n

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The first was the second, meaning the secondary rainbow arc, seen here faintly above the first – this entered and left visibility in the space of two minutes or less. It was still raining lightly where I stood, and if you look at that higher arc, you can see a darker round shadow from a raindrop on the lens. This was better than the lens fogging up in the heat and humidity, which is what was happening when I first got out there since the camera had been sitting indoors in the air conditioning – it’s still hot as blazes around here, which the scattered showers have done little to alleviate.<\/p>\n

I also suspected that I was seeing a hint of something else, and tweaking a few of the frames after I unloaded confirmed it.<\/p>\n

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Significant contrast enhancement was used here, but it shows the ‘echo’ of a supernumerary arc underneath the primary Roy G. Biv pattern of the main bow – I go into them in more detail (with better illustrations) here<\/a>, but what you’re looking for are the faint violet and teal bands repeating underneath the rainbow, which happens in certain conditions.<\/p>\n

So it gave me something to shoot for a few minutes, which was about as long as I wanted to be outside anyway. Balanced out nicely.<\/p>\n

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