You may have to go to Tatooine to see something like that.
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.
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.
Flintlock76A 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.
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Semper VaporoI 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.
A professional photographer told me 40 years ago "Photographs can lie!" And this was long before photoshopping was even dreamed of.
Any time I've seen a double rainbow, the colors have been opposites.
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.
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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.
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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!
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
daveklepperI have two good reasons. Can a reader state them?
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.
Other examples of combining are in the Classic Trains Remembering the Third Avenue Elevated (Polo Gronds Shuttle pic.) and LVT (LV at Flemigton Jc.)
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