At night when the moon is in the right place it can cast a rainbow just like the sun. If you're lucky you can get a photo of a rainbow, in a waterfall with the stars twinkling in the sky like this one. Can you see it?
We were in Mountain View on a work trip and found ourselves with a free weekend. Having visited Yosemite for the day on a previous work trip, we decided that we'd like to head back there and spend a weekend there rather than a few rushed hours.
On researching what we could see while out there, I came across the concepts of the moonbow. When the moon is full and at just the right angle in the sky, you can see a rainbow at night at night if you stand in just the right location! These are called moonbows or spraybows and are a sight to behold. The best times to see this are when the waterfalls are in full flux, usually in spring when their volumes are augmented to by snowmelt. As it turned out, this wekeend was one of the best ones to see the phenomenon so luck was on our side :)
After work on the Friday, we head up to Yosemite and managed to get there and check in to our accommodation in time to get to the required spot at the required time to make this photo of Upper Yosemite Falls. There was only a short window when this was possible and we were relieved and honoured to be apart of this remarkable event.
This is a two photo panorama of landscape frames (so that the stars were all in a single exposure). It was shot from the Sentinel Bridge parking lot. It's funny how many of my favourite photos were made in parking lots!
Yosemite National Park, California, 2013
Canon EOS 5D Mark II with Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM Art
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