Fairy tales say you can find treasure at the end of a rainbow, but this one might disappoint you — because it’s a perfect full circle. According to U.S. media reports on the 10th, photographer Colin Leonhardt from Perth, Western Australia, captured a rare full circular rainbow while traveling past Cottesloe Beach.
China Daily Online, Oct. 11 (Liu Yu) — Fairy tales say you can find treasure at the end of a rainbow, but this one might disappoint you — because it’s a perfect full circle.
Colin said such a sight is very rare, and capturing it is even more difficult.
Colin said, “We were on our way back from an aerial shoot when the helicopter passed through a rain shower area. As we crossed the edge of the rain zone, the sun was setting, low in the sky, and its light created this extraordinary rainbow. It formed right in front of us.”
So Colin took out his camera and captured the formation of the full circular rainbow.
According to NASA (the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration), the phenomenon of a full circular rainbow is highly related to the observer's position and is mainly formed by the internal reflection of sunlight by raindrops.