A striking
image of a bolt of lightning that appeared to strike over a rainbow in Arizona
has gone viral after the Tucson-based photographer who took the picture
recently shared it on Facebook.
Greg McCown
was driving on the 10 Freeway with two other photographers when the trio
encountered a sudden microburst, he wrote in a Facebook post Aug. 8. Traffic slowed to a crawl, with
some cars pulling over and stopping completely.
A short time
later, after parting ways with the other two, McCown decided to head southeast
toward a rainbow and stopped to take photographs. He stated in the post that he
had been trying to get a photo of lightning and a rainbow together in a single
image for years.
“I was just
trying to find a foreground without telephone poles or other junk in the way,”
he wrote. “Found it just in time as this was the last bolt to strike before the
storm dissipated into nothing.”
The result
was a photograph that quickly went viral once it was posted on social media.
By early
Wednesday afternoon, four days after McCown posted it on Facebook, the image
has been shared more than 71,000 times while receiving some 72,800 likes on his
page alone.
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