Mesa, Arizona after the rain

[Ian Cassell]

Jumped out of my car and stopped traffic for a moment yesterday

Canon 7D
Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 @ 17mm
1/160 sec f/20 ISO 400

Crop and S/H in CS5

[Rene Quenneville]

Wow, it was worthed to jump out the car. Beautiful scene, I like the placement of the rainbow in the frame.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Ian,
Looks like you almost had a second one in the UL forming too! The rainbow stands out nicely against the dark and stormy BG and yo uchose it's placement well. You did well minimizing the FG.....and while it isn't the most interesting....it does work and you have minimized it appropriately. I would remove the white thing in the central right FG.....but given what you were working with I think yo uhandled this quite nicely!

[Ian Cassell]

Thanks Rene and Roman. I think there are a bunch of rush-hour drivers still cursing me. Yes, a second arc was forming on top. Before I moved here 11 years ago, I had never seen a double rainbow. Now I've seen many and a rare triple. I agree about that white thing -- I'll clone it out.

[Robert Amoruso]

Hi Ian,

Nicely framed and I too agree with removing the white sign.

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Nice capture

[Ian Cassell]

OK -- The little white building is evicted (CS5 - CA Fill)

Thanks for the comments, folks.