Canadian freelance photographer Christy Turner recently ran into a bit of good luck in the form of some “bad” weather. In the aftermath of a violent thunderstorm on the day of a graduation shoot, nature rewarded her with a spectacular backdrop of mammatus clouds … and a rainbow to boot.

The story began when a colleague and friend of Turner’s asked if she would photographer her daughter, Cheyann Clarke-Colbourne, in the graduation gown that she hadn’t had occasion to use because of the pandemic.