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...
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GtG
You are incredibly talented....too bad you didn’t get the looks too...:(
That’s not me.
Rainbows form when the sun is to your back and the water droplets/mists are in front. They are the reflected sunlight being prismed by the droplet. I amazed one of my neighborhood children when I was spraying down my driveway and asked her if she wanted to see a rainbow, and made one for her on the spot, on a sunny day.
I love the look of wonder on a child’s face.
DK
Rainbows always form an arc of a circle, or even sometimes a complete circle. The shadow of your eye, or in the case of a picture, the shadow of the camera lens, is always at the exact center of that circle. That’s why you generally will only see rainbows in the early morning or late evening, when the sun is low on the horizon.
To INFINITY and beyond!
Beautiful!
For the average joe, digital photography is nirvana. I’m old enough to remember the film days as well and the constant concern of how many exposures are left, where to develop and at what cost? Is this sight-view worth these concerns? The professional and SERIOUS amateurs accepted the costs as part of the package, the rest of us missed many an opportunity!
Even now, with the quality of photos from our phones and such, I carry a good digital camera for the things that an iPhone cannot easily do. YRMV!
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Of course, the Navy hedges their bet by always being aboard a ship :-)
Have you looked for your film on Ebay or Etsy? Astonishing the things you can find there. Of course, film can degrade over time, I know.
My huckleberry friend....
Nice. I hope it’s an omen for that ship.
“Had some good weed that day?”
I dont’ smoke..but she does.
Maybe had a contact buzz?
Even if you can find Kodachrome, it takes a complicated tho not expensive system to process it.
I don’t think there are any processors left.
Oh, I see. Photography is not something that I really have much familiarity with unless you count my point and shoot Canon.
I’m just referring to physics. A rainbow is a prismatic effect caused by the refraction of light that separates into the full color spectrum (frequencies) due to said bending. The visual experience of a rainbow requires that the sun (the source of light) be at an angle relative to the moisture (prism) and the viewer that places the viewer into the plane of sight. Someone miles away and at a different angle to the moisture and the sun will not see a rainbow or will see a different presentation relative to their position, e.g. the sun won’t be striking the same barn, tree, field.
I’ve experienced coronas around aircraft from my 35 years as professional aviator. The corona being a circular “rainbow” as the aircraft passes through moisture laden air, much as your photo portrays. The corona never moved because it was caused by our relative position to the sun, which even at Mach .80, wasn’t changing quickly enough to to perceptively vary the visual location of the prismatic effect.
Just sayin’........ But the photo was very cool!!!!!
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