Posted on 02/06/2015 5:34:03 PM PST by iowamark
Navy photographer Ignacio Perez likes to shoot landscapes but never dreamed he'd shoot an amazing one on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
But on Tuesday around 10:30 a.m., as the USS John C. Stennis cruised in the Pacific Ocean, he got the shot of a lifetime: the 115,000-ton, 1,100-foot-long warship steaming through a rainbow.
"As a photographer I am used to documenting operational events like aircraft launches and recoveries," Perez, a 21-year-old mass communications specialist third class, said in an email. "But when I saw the rainbow I was excited because it was different. I knew the odds of the ship passing near another rainbow were pretty slim."
Perez was fortunate he was on the ship's flight deck on another assignment when things began to fall into place...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Note to liberals, ths isn’ t b/c we let open sodomites serve.
It’s God reminding us of His promise to man never again will He destroy tye earth by a worldwide flood.
And this is a spectacular example of it.
Great shot.... I always envied the PhotgrapersMate that was with us on many CG patrols out of Miami.
They got some fortunate shots that the avg slob didn’t have a chance at
Back around 1975 I came across a beautiful scene in the North Carolina mountains just after a rain. A striking rainbow and a freight train. I took several shots with a Mamiya C330 TLR and couldn’t wait for the pictures.
When I got them back I could barely see the rainbow. Probably the processor was at least partly at fault. If I ever come across those old negatives I am going to scan them into the computer and work on the image a bit.
Its the Final Countdown!!!
truly a one of a kind.
Ive seen untold hundreds of thousands of photographs and never have I laid eyes on this sort of rainbow display
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Dang it. I got to be quicker.
Sorry dude Cock pit error you needed to over expose by least 2 stops and bracket down,youd a got something
And took spme incredible photos of dolphins surfing the bow wake of my ship (USS Barney DDG-6) As we entered the straights of Gibraltar ....rock of Gibraltar in foreground at “10:30” position and sunrise at “1:30” position....1987.
For some reason those pix were never returned to me when I sent all my 110 film in for development after returning from that Mediteranean deployment.
thats because they were great and some scum bag in the lab stole them...That was a big time rip of back in the film days....
Had it happen to me too many times so I started doing my own C41 and BW
The ship isn’t actually passing through the prismatic effect caused by the high moisture content of the air and the perfect angle of the sun. Awesome photo, but the end of the rainbow can never be reached.
I once took a Kodachrome slide of the Mississippi River Bridge at Vicksburg. I was using a Kodak model 48 110 and just held it up and photographed it through the windshield.
I was amazed when I got the slides back that I could read the writing on a small sign on the bridge. Amazing for such a tiny slide.
I still have a Kodak Carousel slide projector for 110 slides. I haven’t been able to find Kodachrome in 110 for many years and now can’t find Kodachrome at all.
“I got a Nikon camera, I like to take photographs, Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away”.
Final Countdown is a guilty pleasure of a movie. Stupid movie but well executed.
You're supposed to link it!
Maybe someone could photo shop, God Bless America, or Pray for America on it.
Great Movie Great Song too
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