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A fairly unusual double rainbow appears over the similarly unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado
A fairly unusual double rainbow appears over the similarly unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado
Roiling clouds and a rainbow appear above the skyline of Pueblo, Colorado, the Arkansas River that flows through town, and its most unusual levee
A most unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado
A piece of a most unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado
A piece of a most unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado
A rainbow appears over the unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado. It seems to descend upon the sketched head of the wise-cracking movie and television comedian Groucho Marx. His image is part of the long and eclectic mural on the levee walls
A rainbow appears over the unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado. It seems to descend upon the sketched head of the wise-cracking movie and television comedian Groucho Marx. His image is part of the long and eclectic mural on the levee walls
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A fairly unusual double rainbow appears over the similarly unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado
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Explanations for this phenomenon are best provided by a meteorologist, but note that the order of colors is reversed in the two rainbows, one of which is always fainter than the other. The more defined of the two seems to descend upon the sketched head of the wise-cracking movie and television comedian Groucho Marx. His image is part of the long and eclectic mural on the levee walls that first appeared as whimsical graffiti in the 1970s and became a city tourist attraction, said to be the longest, if not the most artistic, in the world.
Mural artists: names not given.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)