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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Grace Holliday

‘I didn’t want to miss this crazy-looking ghost rainbow’: Bobby Beasley’s best phone picture

A campervan on top of a hill with a full rainbow over it
Ghost Rainbow Outer Hebrides, 2024, shot on iPhone 11. Photograph: Bobby Beasley

Bobby Beasley was staying in his 1984 Volkswagen T25 Campervan with girlfriend Rach when he took this photo. The couple were on the Isle of Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. “We’ve both always loved camping and getting out to remote spots, preferably on the coast,” Beasley says. “The west coast of Scotland is one of our favourite areas to explore.”

On their first morning at Horgabost Campsite, with its views over Luskentyre beach and its Caribbean-style white sand and turquoise waters, they awoke to a thick sea fret. “As it burned away and lifted a little, the early morning sun shone through from the mountains behind and caused this crazy-looking ghost rainbow,” Beasley says. The pair didn’t lose their chance at this shot, “hence why Rach is standing in her pyjamas! I didn’t want to miss the moment, especially as it was positioned so perfectly over our van.”

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