Because Monday - a rainbow and a couple of lessons

Because Monday, fresh off a weekend's rest from editing images, learning how to make gifs and panoramas and figuring out how to get a Steemit account going for someone else, I was unhumble/foolhardy/arrogant enough to believe I can now stitch together any photos of something I know form a panorama. Monday always knows better, and this Monday was no different, perhaps even more Monday than a typical Monday.

So here are the photos I took one stunning February afternoon last year.

I had raced home to look at this rainbow from a better vantage point than this office car park, because it was a double rainbow. Here's an unedited shot which shows I didn't even roll down my car window to take the picture. What was I thinking? How often do we get to see double rainbows? Who cares if it's raining? Get out there and get that photo even if it means a soaking!




So here's what the centre and right hand sides of the rainbow looked like:

Panorama, easy-peasy with modern software, right? I know nothing, Jon Snow. And Monday was here to remind me of that.

It turns out that the pixel connectors in the various bits of software I tried recognised a Monday when they saw one - no way would they put these three pictures together. I've had my Humble Pie for lunch now and am simply going to post the photos separately and let you do that amazing human thing our brains do: stitch the photos together in your minds.

When you look at these photos you can see why software would refuse to stitch them. I hadn't taken them with the intent to create a panorama; I just thought each photo looked good at the time. Here's an example of what happened when I tried to stitch them.

Garbage in, garbage out.

But I've learned my Monday lesson. Stay humble, and if I see a double rainbow, get out there and take proper panorama pics next time.