white skies in palm springs?

iphone cameras have a mind of their own. sometimes it is fortuitous. while i was snapping a few shots of the cacti at the palm springs cactarium last week (a marvelous place), my phone camera recoded this photo on what looks like a white sky. and yet the desert sky was nothing other than a cloudless deep cerulean blue for the whole week. i don’t know how or why the photo came out this way. if i had tried to make it myself, i would have needed a huge white screen to place behind them (these cacti are about 3 meters tall). it would have been effortful and cumbersome. so, this one was an oddity. a freebie. i’ll take it.

cereus(?) cacti at the palm springs cactarium