11-04-09 – Roy G. Biv

I would suggest there’s an argument to be made that “rainbows,” would include rainbow colored items as long as it’s all the colors and not just red or blue or whatever alone.

Well that open it up just a bit. Not that I have any rainbow colored stuff here but that seems to be a common kite coloring theme.

Of course, it figures that I’ve used my best rainbow shots in other contests.

Ranger Joe. Ditto. I have one corn-field rainbow left.

thepostess – I’m not the boss but the second one works for me. I know it doesn’t really show diffraction, but it squeezes between the rules. What say you oriodid?

I think they both work too.

Elsinore will have to make the call though. I think orionid is gonna be away for a bit.

I got nothin for this week either so I am hoping for a bit of latitude on the the description.

From orionids original post:
Prisms, CD’s, opals, some road signs when they catch the sun just right, “homemade” rainbows with the lawn sprinkler, those rediculous shiny stickers in the $.25 machine at the supermarket, spectrographs…. Basically anything that separates white light into some or all of it’s parts.

I guess that would depict diffraction/refraction (whichever it is).

Isn’t that kind of a problem for the theme description? A lot of rainbow effects (including the actual ones in the sky) are refraction, not diffraction.

My 2 entries this week will come from scans of old school photos I took with a 1972 Kodak Instamatic unless we agree that rainbow colored objects are ok :/ which we can totally do by all means, I just wish I knew how to clean the photos up more because naturally they aren’t the best clarity. But, they are really cool.

If the photo is focusing on the rainbow colors on the object I’d think that would be ok since it would be along the lines of the postesses color drop in water.

Well, from the original theme discussion, a picture/painting/non-refractive rainbow wouldn’t necessarily fit either. However, I’m still inclined to include non-refractive depictions of rainbows, since the way the actual theme description is worded could be argued to include it, and allowing it would open things up more for people.

Any objections to that plan?

Sounds good to me, you’ll probably get alot of those shots anyway.

I think this is going to be contest with some spectacular shots.

In other news, I miss orionid 🙁

Me too. But I think he’s where he needs to be right now.

I agree with opening it up as much as possible.

/I missed something here. Where did our submariner go? Can you direct me to a thread?