The attached photograph showing “a triple rainbow” was sent by a trusted friend, whose friend wrote that is shows a triple rainbow in Israel, where I live. I’m certain it’s the result of digital manipulation.
I have two good reasons. Can a reader state them?
On the other hand, examples of my “electronic darkroom” work:
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Other examples of combining are in the Classic Trains Remembering the Third Avenue Elevated (Polo Gronds Shuttle pic.) and LVT (LV at Flemigton Jc.)
Actually three. The reversal of color (or should I say the non-reversal from primary to secondary in the image?) and the non-justifiable offset of the third bow are the most significant, but the angle between primary and secondary would be wrong, too.
I have in fact seen true triple rainbows, and the third bow is very close to one of the others and you have to look carefully to distinguish it.
File under Can You Top This: Several months ago, the BBC ran a picture story of a quadruple rainbow, I believe it was in Scotland.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-50222151
I’d suspect that rainbow photo’s been manipulated. I’ve seen triple rainbows myself but they were always stacked neatly on top of one another.
I suppose Mother Nature likes things tidy?
And nice saves on those old damaged photos David!
Multiple rainbows are always concentric (share a common center), so the one that is offset to the left is phoney. The other two appear to have some concentricity, but are offset vertically, so one or the other is also phoney.
I have done enough photo manipulation to know how easy it is to do anything to a photo… I no longer accept “photo proof” of anything. I have changed eye color in a photo of a person, put faces of relatives on movie star bodies, inserted (or removed) people into/from a group setting. The only thing I have not been able to do successfully is change a person’s race.
I saw a quadruple rainbow one fall in Michigan after a strong, cleansing rain. It was more like a tunnel of color. Definitely not like that first shot.
Any time I’ve seen a double rainbow, the colors have been opposites.
A professional photographer told me 40 years ago “Photographs can lie!” And this was long before photoshopping was even dreamed of.
I’ve seen photo postcards showing rural stations with crowds that would be rare at best at said locations. Careful inspection usually shows the seam where two photos - one of the station and one of the crowd - were joined.
I saw a full double rainbow about 10pm in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003 when my future wife and I were on our first semi-date.
Overmod, Firelock, and Semper are all Correct. Nature’s ways of creating rainbows precudes their intersecting. The reason not mentioned so far is that no news sevice reaching me had anything about any rainbow at the time. Thanks.
You may have to go to Tatooine to see something like that.