Rainbows in the Frame: Emblems of Hope in a Dark Year

Gene Blevins—Reuters

Darkness and Light

July 13, 2012. A double rainbow appears after a heavy storm near Searchlight, Nevada.

No More Shooting Massacres 

July 27, 2012. A rainbow appears behind Chantel Blunk, wife of Jonathan Blunk, as the flag-draped casket bearing her husband's remains is loaded onto a plane at Denver International Airport. Blunk, a five-year U.S. Navy veteran, was killed in the July 20 Dark Knight Rises shooting massacre in Aurora, Colorado.



Hurricane Sandy Recovery 

Oct. 30, 2012. A rainbow forms over Breezy Point, Queens, in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy in New York. Fire destroyed scores houses in the flooded neighborhood.




Withdrawl From Afghanistan 

Feb. 19, 2012. An Afghan man watches pigeons on the roof of his house as a rainbow forms in the background in Mazar-i Sharif, Afghanistan.



The Safe Return of Those Who Serve 

June 25, 2012. A Chinook helicopter passes before a rainbow as it maneuvers north of DuPont, Wash.



Help for the Powerless 

Jan. 14, 2012. A homeless man pushes a cart as a rainbow arcs acoss the sky in an area called "Cracolandia" (Crackland in English), in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil.



Coexistence, not Sectarianism 

Nov. 11, 2012. A rainbow arcs over the Palestinian Shuafat refugee camp and a section of Israel's controversial separation barrier in Isreali-annexed East Jerusalem.


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