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There is a spot, just up the road from my house, that is, at certain times of the year, the perfect place to take a picture of a rainbow.  It's near the crest of a hill.  With the sunset happening in the west, the moisture in the air will generate a rainbow over the farms to the west.

Panorama of a great rainbow spot.
This is such a good place because I can get the sun directly on my back when a rainbow is most likely to occur.  That has the effect of making it seem like your looking down a pipe.  Occasionally a double rainbow happens though not a complete one like this. 

The photo is a series of four pictures snapped with the camera held vertically and overlapped some.  The photos are combined in Lightroom and exported as a DNG file.  After being edited for contrast and tone I can export again as a Jpeg for publishing here.  The hardest thing for me is printing.  The biggest print I can make is 13x19. Because the ratio of length to width of a panorama is far different from any normal length to width format associated with photography, I end up with a print that has a lot of white space top and bottom.  I have read that it is possible to feed a longer sheet of paper into my printer in order to get wider coverage on the paper.  I'm in the process of looking into that now.  More on that subject later.

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