Saturday, 20th November 2010
Desert Rainbow
by James Fougere
While visiting the Painted Hills in Oregon, I was lucky that an afternoon storm moved through the region. The challenge with this image was trying to keep the rain drops off my lens!! I was glad to finally get a complete rainbow in a such a "fitting" place.
Equipment: Sony A55, 10mm Sigma
James Fougere
James Fougere is a nature and landscape amateur photographer based in Whistler, British Columbia. James' photography focuses on grand landscapes and highlights his appreciation of the natural world. James' life-long passion for the wilderness has taken him across North America.
Desert Rainbow by James Fougere was photo of the day on Saturday, 20th November 2010. It is tagged Deserts, Rainbows, Weather. You can leave a comment below.
18 Comments
Don Stilton
Stunning contrast and fantastic colors. Oregon offers a lot of photo ops and you have captured a great one. Thanks for sharing.
Helene
It’s our world and it’s another world at the same time. Fantastic!
Malta Photography
What a great image. the light is balanced everywhere. Very nice warm shading.
Debs
WoW….. phenomenal photo
PlanetLover
Lovely! I like the grass in the foreground and the gold in the middle. Good name for those hills.
Wanda
It looks as if you were at the right place at the right time, despite the rain. Beautiful image.
Anna Capaldi
An image like this could win us Best Planet of the Year. Seriously, I look at photography all the time and haven’t had an image ever move me like this one. Also, there are many ways to ruin a shot like this and you successfully avoided all of them! Really excellent work!
Pauline Jones
This is just lovely; what great lighting.
Richard Dart
What amazing complementarity of colour: Blue-purple with the contrasting yellow-gold. And then there is the complementarity of night and day and of linear and undulating and of abstract and representational. Helene has it exactly right: it’s other-worldly but of our world. Phenomenally beautiful!! Thanks.
Ellen Empson
JUST BEAUTIFUL!
Marie Dunphy Harding
Many thanks for your talent and patience to bring us this fabulous shot.
luciaM_
Surreal!! I love the shot.
Laura Milholland
Fantastic and memorable image! Congratulations!
Deborah Flowers
God’s Promise!
Stellar capture! You’ve most definitely been blessed.
Ron Richins
By chance, were you happening to stand next to Marc Adamus? He has a similar shot. You guys sure were lucky.
Tad Bowman
Fantastic shot! The colors, the contrast, the rainbow are just perfect. Congratulations.
James Fougere
Hi Ron, you are right, I was standing next to Marc Adamus! Marc commented on how lucky we were to get this opportunity! Marc has been to the Painted Hills many times, and this composition would be the best he has seen. I am sure Marc’s version of this shot is spectacular!! I would highly recommend anyone who is visiting the Pacific North West to spend some time with Marc Adamus in the field! He is an outstanding landscape photographer!
Russ Bishop
Beautiful -almost looks as though the scene has been light painted.