On vacation with the photo-obsessed Homan family

Always be ready with your camera
When I take vacation, it usually is centered around fishing. It doesn't matter if we're vising the mountains, the beach or in-between, I love to fish. Of course my camera comes along me and my wife has her camera as well.

Recently, my family and I had a great vacation at Emerald Isle, N.C., and one of the highlights of the trip was a 6-minute and 50 seconds period of time right after dinner that had NOTHING to do with fishing.

Cindy and I were sitting at the table finishing eating at the beach-front house after a long day of mostly rain and clouds. We were lazily looking out at the heavy surf breaking less than 100 yards where we were sitting when Cindy yells out 'RAINBOW.' Without hesitation we both jump up, grab our cameras and run out the back of the house yelling upstairs to alert the kids.

The sun had just broke through the clouds about an hour before sunset and a beautiful rainbow formed directly behind the house. Cindy was photographing it from the porch and I ran down to shoot through the Sea Oats. We were excitedly shouting back-and-forth to each on what we were seeing through our cameras when her observant eye notices that there was second rainbow just to the right of the brighter one. We continued firing and I looked down the beach to my left when I noticed the other end of the brighter rainbow could be seen on the horizon. Cindy ran out on the beach with her wide angle lens trying to capture both ends of the rainbow in one shot. Unfortunately she needed a fisheye lens to get both ends. In the six minutes and 50 seconds that these rainbows made an appearance, we made 92 photos between the two of us.

To view more photos of the double rainbow, go to the Homan Designs galleries web site. You can leave comments or purchase prints including poster-sized prints on canvas.

Mike