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One of stone, two of
light, as Mother Nature fuses three arches. I was at Delicate Arch with my
friend, Doug Reel, several other parties present, when it began to rain.
Everyone wanted to leave, including Doug, a reasonable thing to do since
we had no raincoats nor cover of any sort in which to hide. Looking around
I felt the rain would be short lived and informed Doug I would be staying.
Sure enough my efforts were rewarded when a rainbow began to form. I fired
a few frames and came to the end of the roll of film, only to see the
rainbow grow. I was using a brand new camera, its first trip, scarcely out
of the box, yet I
wanted this image so desperately that I changed the film in a wind that
was driving both sand and rain. Someone once called capturing this event "luck".
I don't deny for a moment that I was very fortunate to capture this
natural history moment, yet, at the same time, if a person spends as much
time in the field as I do he is bound to get some very special magic. If I hadn't been
here at Delicate Arch that day, perhasps I would
have been somewhere else capturing another image just as impressive. |
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