Rainbow near Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Not a bad photo for a day of crappy weather.
While driving south towards Monte Vista on US 24, we spotted this complete
rainbow off the side of the road. I have never before, or since,
seen a complete rainbow- where you actually see both ends touch the ground.
Since the effect of a rainbow is caused by prismatic reflection through
water droplets, you can neither approach the rainbow, or in 3D, get any
depth out of it. Effectively, each person's view of a rainbow is
personal- it moves with you. Therefore, the position of the rainbow
has not moved with respect to me, when I stepped from side to side to take
the two photos. As a result, the rainbow has no depth and simply
appears at the very back of the picture, even though your brain says it's
obviously out front. This causes a kind of interference in the brain,
much like reversing the left-right image pairs (but not as intensely because
most of the picture is right). I just thought that this was a rather
interesting photo to have. I swear this is not one of those
tacky rainbow filters, either. The mountains in the background are
the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
