Month: December 2022

I recently came across this photograph when perusing some images from the Carol M. Highsmith Collection, and, hailing from the American West, I was cheered by its familiar landscape – not to mention the symmetry of the rainbow. As the title of the image indicates, the hint of a second rainbow is visible above the brighter arc.   Double rainbow (the upper one is faint) over tiny Antares along historic U.S. Route 66 in Arizona. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2017. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.49616 Curious to see how and where other photographers in the collections might have captured rainbows, I sought out more examples. Reproducing this elusive visual phenomenon in photographic form is difficult, so it is no surprise that most other…