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Looking for the rainbow...
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Santi said on September 28, 2005 19:29:
I need to know if there is any place where there is a high chance of seeing a rainbow.
I’m shooting a movie and I need to put a rainbow in. Any place in Europe is ok, does anybody know where could I have great chances of finding one? :P
Thanks in advance! :)
Jud (moderator) said on September 28, 2005 20:23:
I don’t know, I have seen a couple here in Vienna (surroundings) when it has rained and sunshine..
And I used to see pretty some (at least 1x year) in Lleida. I think you need a place where summer storms are common (sun + rain)
DaminehGessle said on September 29, 2005 07:27:
We get them alot here.
I saw the first rainbow of my life in Istanbul, Turkey though.
colinvdbel (moderator) said on September 29, 2005 08:51:
Just The Netherlands I guess. make sure youre out of town ;)
roxtexanet said on September 30, 2005 02:38:
Does it have to be in the sky? Usually you can see quite striking ones by waterfalls... probably not what you had in mind though...
realsuga said on September 30, 2005 08:11:
look outside any gay club/bar....there’s always a rainbow or 3 there:-) That failing......ain’t got a clue!:-)
Santi said on September 30, 2005 09:58:
I was living in The Netherlands for a long time and I saw just one, last july in Amsterdam city.
They’ve told me better out of town, but I don’t really get why should be better out of town... I can’t find any physical reason why that would be so! :O And if it’s about pollution, one look at a map or pollutant concentrations in my ecotoxicology course let me know last December that air in the Dutch countryside comes to be as polluted as in the cities.
About waterfalls, it’s a possibility I’m considering. I mean, I just need a rainbow. There is not any dramatic purpose per se in it, I’m shooting a science documentary and that is why I need one. But in southern Europe waterfalls are a bit of a rarity, since there’s hardly any water. They’ve told me of a place
called the National Park of the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia, that apparently has dozens of waterfalls, and I may go there.
The preference still is a rainbow in the sky, because it’s like more significant, bigger, wider, most spectacular :D
Jud (moderator) said on October 1, 2005 07:33:
will be rather expensive rainbow if you have to travel around Europe to find one ;)
LittleSpooky said on October 1, 2005 07:43:
Phew... don’t know what to tell you about in Europe.
Here in Utah... depends on how much water content is still in the air and where the sun is in terms of “brilliance”.
Sun low on the horizon coupled with the trailing edge of a rain storm makes for some SPECTACULAR sightings. Sometimes, those lead to “double” rainbows (a smaller, less visible one below the large one)
Santi said on October 3, 2005 21:30:
Well, I’m not sure. I will try The Netherlands because there I still have an apartment (until January), I will be generally more aware wherever I go. I may try also Croatia because it’s on my way to Bulgaria and Turkey (to Turkey I want to go next year because there is a total eclispe of sun).
It seems to be pretty random, but shooting in the Croatian waterfalls may serve as emergency footage, just in case nothing better comes up.
And in the worst case (nothing comes up and I can’t go to Croatia) I will have to fake it with long hours of Photoshop, After Effects, Maya and Premiere...
The documentary is on light physics (or should I say hard physics of light? :D).
colinvdbel (moderator) said on October 3, 2005 21:35:
@ Santi : out of town you can see further...so if there is one, youg ot a better chance of seeing it when youre surrounded by just grass with cows on it :P
nicci_The-Look said on September 28, 2005 20:10:
Sorry, I can’t help you but I understand that you have a problem ;-P