Let’s look forward to a better year going forward, where we can hopefully put the COVID-19 pandemic and be more free to safely do things — like travel. Photographer’s comments:
“This photo was taken many years ago on a morning flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. It was raining that day in San Francisco, and as we broke through the clouds, I saw what looked like a rainbow halo around the shadow of the plane. I’d never seen such a thing before, and it was a mad scramble to pull the camera out from under the seat to get this shot before it disappeared. This optical phenomenon is actually called a ‘glory’, and is different from, but related to, rainbows. Because the glory surrounds the shadow of the plane, it looked like it was protecting the plane from harm like a shield around a science-fiction spacecraft.”
Gallery note: We were originally going to write a post on this photo before Thanksgiving 2020. However, things got in the way of that, and we couldn’t even post this at Christmas. Many people did indeed travel during then, with the result being a surge in COVID cases. Here’s to the hope that the vaccinations underway now will indeed protect us all from harm by next year.
