Rainbows!

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Back when I used to actually draw things (around the age of 5), my favorite subject was rainbows. I was weird and critical about them having the colors be in the right order (my kindergarten buddies got an earful if they ever drew purple next to yellow). I was thrilled when I found out that there was actually a scientific explanation for why rainbow colors were always in the same order. They’re spread out according to the lengths of the wavelengths. Red has the longest wavelength, purple has the shortest (The five-year-old in my is saying “I told you so”). Also, I mean, come on, that order is totally the prettiest.
Anyways, I’ve always had a weakness for rainbow pictures, and this one is particularly awesome. That’s definitely a double rainbow in the top left of the picture. (I know, right? Rare!) The picture even depicts the conditions that make rainbows possible. You can see the receding rainclouds, and almost feel the sun finally beginning to come out. Yes, there’s got to be tons of tiny little water drops refracting the white light and splitting it up into a beautiful depiction of its constituent parts.
Also, the mountains and beach have this perfect mix of calming beauty and hinted adventure. (Anyone want to try to scale those steep cliffs? Let’s go! If we fall, whatever, they look velvety soft. It’s cool, nobody dies in rainbow beach land). There are even footprints in the sand that give this feeling of impending journey that might lead beneath the rainbow, or into the mountains, or just down the beach forever. Despite the hint that we might actually walk under the rainbow, in real life the rainbow would just keep receding into the distance, or maybe disappear. Rainbows in general are this fleeting beauty that we can only ever view from a distance. The photographs make the rainbow more tangible, and the footprints add this hope of attaining the unattainable
I couldn’t find the name of the photographer, but this is actually a wall paper for your computer (Yea, I downloaded it). It’s probably supposed to promote tourism to Hawaii. Which is working. I’d be down for visiting that landscape. So, to summarize, this picture called to me in particular because it’s got this exotic draw, and it features a particularly good image of rainbow. And the little girl in my is kind of jumping up and down right now for a vacation to Hawaii and singing to theme song to “Rainbow Bright.”