Moran Rainbow

Last evening at the Florida Gateway College in Lake City I attended a series of talks titled Our water,Our future. The keynote speaker was the celebrated photographer John Moran, who specializes in the Springs of Florida. Making my way to the college, I noticed a wonderful rainbow off to the east. As I came to the Levy Performing Arts Center, I saw Moran walking for his car. I stopped and reintroduced myself as the guy he photographed several years ago for the Lake City Logo controversy. He said he had been up since 3AM putting his show together and was going to catch a nap before the start in thirty minutes. I told him I was torn between his talk and capturing the rainbow. He laughed and said, its all in foreground, meaning, I told him I was trying to get a good view of the rainbow but the pines were obstructing. So I hurried over to the new Library and was able to get the shot. In order to balance the sky and the "foreground", I used a polarized sunglass as a neutral density filter, placing it over the sky and carefully lining it up on the horizon line.
It is a good trick for the times you do not have a filter, or with one of the little point and shoot cameras lacking filters.