Posted on 02/06/2015 5:34:03 PM PST by iowamark
Navy photographer Ignacio Perez likes to shoot landscapes but never dreamed he'd shoot an amazing one on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
But on Tuesday around 10:30 a.m., as the USS John C. Stennis cruised in the Pacific Ocean, he got the shot of a lifetime: the 115,000-ton, 1,100-foot-long warship steaming through a rainbow.
"As a photographer I am used to documenting operational events like aircraft launches and recoveries," Perez, a 21-year-old mass communications specialist third class, said in an email. "But when I saw the rainbow I was excited because it was different. I knew the odds of the ship passing near another rainbow were pretty slim."
Perez was fortunate he was on the ship's flight deck on another assignment when things began to fall into place...
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I went out on friends and family cruise on the Stennis when she was home ported in San Diego. We were more than 50 miles off the coast when an F-14 flew low next to the ship and broke the sound barrier. When the aircraft broke the sound barrier there was a water vapor ring where the jet passed, but it was not rainbow colored.
I agree!
MD ping - photog came out of Ft. Meade.
My wife and I experienced this on a cruise ship in the Carib about 10 years ago. Have the pictures to this day. Incredible sight
Yep...lost my leaning tower of pisa photos and all of my Flirence pix as well....egypt pyramids sphynx spotnwhere Sadat was assasinated turkey israel jerusalem bar shots...got all of those...
My motto is make some other sucka link dat sheet!
Maryland PING!
My thoughts too.
I think it might be the result of the right angle of light through the bow spray.
I think you have nailed it.
the points of the “beginning” and “end” of tha rainbow would have to be “local”
I think you might be right. It looks very close.
“The ship isn’t actually passing through the prismatic effect caused by the high moisture content of the air and the perfect angle of the sun. Awesome photo, but the end of the rainbow can never be reached”
OK. Ya’ll can believe it or not. And I don’t know how or why or even if it’s even possible. I just know it happened.
My girlfriend and I were riding out in the country and across a huge cotton field I saw “the end of the rainbow”. It was a huge rainbow and the end was probably..50 yds. wide and...It was moving and I thought it was just because the car was moving. Coming toward us. So I stopped. And it kept coming. And it passed right over the car. Showered with light, red, yellow, blue, for a couple of seconds and then it moved on across the field on the other side of the road.
Hey, I know what I saw. It was pretty damn cool.
Had some good weed that day?
Final Countdown.
Oh my. I’d like my life to be like this…every morning, breaking through a rainbow into the light.
Maybe that’s how it really is. For all of us.
Correct. They're usually waiting 'round the bend.
“For some reason those pix were never returned to me when I sent all my 110 film in for development after returning from that Mediteranean deployment.”
I spent a bit of time on Okinawa in 1969. When I arrived, we were told that anyone taking pics of the SR-71s taking off from Kadena would not just not get the pics when turned in for developing but would also get a visit from AP’s (Air Police? I was Navy).
I didn’t take a pic but I did see an SR-71 take off - really spectacular! Ran down the runway about 1/2 mile, rotated and almost immediately broke the sound barrier. All you saw was two big red circles going quickly into the clouds. Awesome.
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