An inquisitive old fart with a camera
Photos for their own sake. No particular context.
One thing I love about Uruguay is the sky. Only extremely rarely marred by aerosol geoengineering/poisoning, and then only one telltale streak. And frequently dramatic.
This is from a couple nights ago, when a light sprinkle of rain arrived at dusk to temper the day’s heat.
Being off-season, we pretty much had the beach to ourselves.
From the beach in Parque del Plata, where I took my new friend Mihai from Romania to see wind- and kite-surfers. The bright spot in the rainbow to the right of the sun looked, to the eye, as bright as the sun — like a sky with two suns. The rainbows were more prominent as well. Unlike any sky I’ve ever seen!
I only realized it was in fact a double rainbow after looking at the picture.
Interesting change of perspective: instead of radiating from the sun, shadows converge away from it.
Not that it’s a sea, of course. It’s considered the river, the Rio de La Plata. Whose opposite bank is Antarctica.