A breezy autumn day

[David Paterson]

Two shots grabbed between heavy rain-showers.

[John Geerts]

Impressive rainbow, David !

[Thomas Stellwag]

David stop -  please -  bought a new cam, have no money for tickets to Scotland :-)
joke aside, both are beautiful, not that these cannot be done in several places, but these cannot be found by most people, this is the big difference, I adore in your work

[David Paterson]

Thank you, John, and Thomas - so nice to hear from you; I'm happy that you like these images. And if you can't make it over to Scotland, maybe I'll come over to Deutschland sometime. I haven't been in Germany for many years.

[Thomas Stellwag]

your wife and you are welcome as guests as long as you want to stay ! 

[Akira]

These make a fantastic diptych.  It is great to see the bottom end of a rainbow.

[Jakov Minić]

David, you must see a lot of yellows this time of year. Lovely.

[David Paterson]

Thanks, Jakov and Akira.

These make a fantastic diptych.  It is great to see the bottom end of a rainbow.

What interested me was that the rainbow touched ground exactly at the end of that headland a few km down Loch Tay

[simato73]

The rainbow shot is beautiful.
You have dust bunnies on your sensor.

[David Paterson]

The rainbow shot is beautiful.
You have dust bunnies on your sensor.

Thank you, and yes, I only spotted these after the image had been posted. Fixing this is on my to-do list, but not very near the top . . . . I will get round to it, though.

[Les Olson]

Excellent rainbow picture!  I don't know if it was deliberate but you have captured supernumerary bows - the pale green and pale pink areas inside the violet of the main rainbow. These are formed when the raindrops are very small and uniform.  The width is related to the drop size - the smaller the drops, the wider the supernumerary bows.  Yours are quite unusual - they are normally only clearly visible at the top of the arc. 

The other thing you have captured well is the lighter sky inside the rainbow.

[rosko]

Love both shots !

How lucky you are, Dave, to leave in this beautiful area !

Your rainbow is so colourful.

Cheers, Francis.

[David Paterson]

Thanks, Les and Francis, for your kind comments.

The other thing you have captured well is the lighter sky inside the rainbow.

Les - you obviously know a lot more about rainbows than I do - it's interesting about the supernumerary colours and I have often noticed the lighter sky - I have quite an extreme example - I'll look it out and post it here.

Francis - that was one of the best rainbows I have ever seen - the sky was very dark. Unfortunately I was inside a wood when it happened and I could only see small fragments of the bow - this was the best I could do - shoot a small detail with a 200mm lens. By the time I got clear of the trees, the bow had almost disappeared. 

[David Paterson]

Here is the shot with bright sky inside the rainbow

[Les Olson]

Very nice! That one has the secondary rainbow (the colours are in reverse order).  As you can see not only is the sky lighter inside the primary rainbow, the sky between the primary and secondary rainbows is darker than the sky outside the secondary (sometimes called Alexander's Dark Band - he formed another one later).