Scottish photographerNick Sidleloves the creative opportunities that aerial photography provides.
Sidle was up at dawn taking photos in the Scottish Highlands when the opportunity presented itself.
From the ground, this rainbow although appearing closer than average, only looked like the usual half-circle.
Watching the feed from the drone as it climbed steadily, the lower half was revealed.
As the rainbow was so close, it wasn’t possible to fit it all into one shot.
Later, using Photoshop’s Photomerge command, he sewed together 22 photos to create the final image.
So why are full-circle rainbows so rare?
Rainbows form when sunlight is scattered through water droplets in a phenomenon calledrefraction.
This breaks up the light into different colors.
As that’s not possible, rainbows almost always appear as arcs.
To see a true full-circle rainbow, you oughta be up high.
They can also be viewed from very tall buildings or, in this case, from a drone.
In fact, Sidle only saw the arc from his perspective on the ground.
It was all thanks to drone technology that he then got a view of something even more special.
