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Since everyone is budget conscious these days I’ve decided to indulge in a little RainbowNomics. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept, it goes like this. Its very simple really, whenever you order a rainbow make certain that the little box called “make it a double please” is checked and you get two rainbows for the price of one, thereby doubling your investment and your enjoyment at the same time. Why settle for one garden variety rainbow when you can have two spectacular, incredible, stupendous rainbows just as easily and for the same amount of effort. It just makes good sense. Any questions? OK then, Let’s everybody do it and really help the economy.

This picture is actually a panorama of 18 separate images taken one after the other from the left to the right then stitched together in Photoshop to make one very wide picture. A panorama shows the entire scene much closer and clearer than if you took a single image with a wide angle lens. How come? well in the wide angle lens image the subject, the rainbow, would be further away due to the magic that happens inside the lens and you wouldn’t be able to see the rainbow as well as it would be smaller and kind of puny looking. If you read my authors page then you know that I told you that occasionally I would sneak some technical stuff into these posts and there it was. National Geographic will do it sometimes too, take panoramas and then tell you about it. I want to give you the same quality information here. This scene was shot from our deck looking out over the plains right after a small rain storm went through. We frequently got rainbows before only they’ve always been the single ones, but since we began practicing RainbowNomics we now get these fantastic double ones absolutely free. Isn’t it great to be an American.