Found this stunning rainbow over a village in Dorset in the south of England. I don’t know who took the photo but its a beauty.
Category Archives: Rainbows
Victoria Falls rainbow
This must be one of the most spectacular sights on the planet. This is the Victoria Falls, on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Asu Island, surf rainbow
Newton’s rainbow
An illustration of Newton's famous experiment
The great scientist Sir Isaac Newton did not invent rainbows. But he did discover that white light consists on many colors, and can be split using a prism.
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George Seurat & Bridget Riley
by George Seurat
by Bridget Riley
These are two very famous paintings.
One of them is known as abstract art.
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Horizontal rainbow
No arc en ciel here
There are no tricks here. This is a horizontal rainbow I saw in Izu a few weeks ago.
And it was not raining, and I was facing the sun.
Amazing rainbow
Upside down rainbow
Most rainbows are shaped like a bridge in the sky, but this rainbow that I saw in Izu last month is the wrong way round.
I have no idea how this rainbow was formed (it was not raining at the time).
Double rainbow
A hole in one!
I like rainbows. This photo is taken from somewhere on the net. It looks too good to be true!
Rainbow after a typhoon
Rainbow across Mariko River in Shizuoka city
There was a huge typhoon which swept across Japan yesterday, and it left behind this beautiful rainbow, which was much lower and thicker than usual.
And here it is again
We don’t often get rainbows with green hills as a backdrop.
Rainbow over Shizuoka
In Hawaii you can see rainbows every day, but they are much rarer in Shizuoka. So when a giant double rainbow crossed the sunny sky yesterday it was a sight enjoyed by many people. Even NHK showed pictures in the evening news.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Hawaiian rainbow
Hawaii is called the ‘rainbow state’. And it sure does get a lot of rainbows, especially in late afternoon. I stayed in Hawaii for about a week and I saw rainbows every day.
A long, wide rainbow
This is another rainbow picture that I found. What a sight!
It’s not shaped like a bow, and it’s not circular. It’s just long and wide. In this case the cloud is not a gas, and actually consists of very small pieces of ice. The sunlight on the ice produces the rainbow.
Rainbow from above the clouds
In his comment to Quick Quiz XXV dragonlife replied with another quiz, an excellent question: what does a rainbow look like when seen from above, for example from an airplane.
I admit that I didn’t know, so I did some research and found this photo taken from an airplane above the clouds.
Maybe you can just see a circular rainbow on the clouds. This is a very unusual sight. I hope this is the right answer dragonlife!
