A teenager managed to snap the ‘perfect Nike tick cloud’ in the sky… but regrets not sending it to the mega brand.
John Wilson, 17, from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, was on holiday with his family at Evans Head in New South Wales, Australia, when he took the incredible image.
The cloud bizarrely sits at right angles to any other clouds in the sky and forms the perfect shape of the sport’s brand’s world-renowned logo.
John Wilson, 17, was on holiday with his family at Evans Head in New South Wales, Australia, when he managed to take an incredible image of the iconic ‘swoosh’ or ‘tick’
In fact, the shape is so accurate that most who have seen the picture have accused young John of Photoshopping it – even his pals.
Yet the A-levels student is adamant the photo is legitimate and believes he could have made a fortune flogging it to Nike for them to use in advertising – but gave up after finding it too difficult to get in touch with them.
John, originally from Bedfordshire but now living in Brisbane, Australia, said: ‘It was just too good to miss.
‘I could have made a stack tonne selling this to Nike.
‘I looked into contacting Nike directly but it was pretty hard so I gave up but it would have been nice to see what they thought of it.
‘I wanted to tag them on Instagram but I didn’t think they would see it. So I never bothered in the end.’
John had been with mum Gill, 45, dad Andrew, 48, and his siblings Tim, 15, Rebekah, 12, and one-year-old Luke when the shape appeared in the sky.
John from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, believes he could have cashed in on his incredible image
John said: ‘We had gone for a walk together as a family after lunch while on our holiday and that is a spot we like to go to on the coast where there is a little beach.
‘On the way down there my little sister looked up and said that one of the clouds looked like a Nike tick.
‘We all got our phones out straight away and started taking pictures. It wasn’t moving very fast so we had about 30 seconds taking pictures.
‘We were all really shocked at the definition, it was perfect.
‘When you try and draw a Nike tick by hand you never get it right but this cloud was literally perfect in shape.
‘There were no planes in the sky, it was just how it had happened by pure chance.’
After sharing the image online, multiple commenters told him he should have sold his image to Nike for them to use in their adverts.
However not everyone was so quick to believe the picture was real.
John said: ‘When I shared it online, some said that the photo simply didn’t look real. Even when I showed it to my friends, they all said it looked fake.
‘To be honest, strangers on the internet believed me more readily than my friends, which was a bit odd.
‘But I kept on saying that honestly, it was real. I managed to convince most my friends but some still don’t reckon it’s real.
John had been out with his family and stopped at the spot at Evans Head beach where the Nike tick appeared perfectly in the clouds
The cloud above Evans Head bizarrely sits at right angles to any other clouds in the sky and forms the perfect shape of the sport’s brand’s world-renowned logo
‘But I’m nowhere near good enough at Photoshop to do that.
‘Everyone who has seen it has been pretty impressed with it and on one social media website where I shared it, it was seen by a million people. I thought that was crazy.
‘I think people generally believe me that I took the photo like that now, but it often takes a lot of explaining.
‘I actually held the camera on a bit of an angle when I took the photo to make sure it looked as close to the Nike tick as possible.’
Nike were contacted for comment as this story went live.