Gaurav Agrawal, an amateur scientist and photographer who lives in San Diego, couldn't believe it when he suddenly started seeing a photograph taken last summer making headlines.
It took him to St Mary Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, a "magical evening" in August 2019.
He shared the snap on the Flickr photo platform and didn't think about it anymore.
However, a technical problem meant that when the image was set as a background, some Android phones failed.
Laptops turned on and off repeatedly, requiring a factory reset, which meant that all data on them was erased.
Last week, a bug tweet went viral and Mr. Agrawal contacted me.
"I didn't do anything intentionally," he said. "I'm sad that people had problems."
It appears to be happening on some, but not all brands of phones, with version 10 of the Android operating system. It is not recommended to try it.
"It was a magical evening," Agrawal told the BBC the night he took the photo in the park with his wife. It was their third trip there, in search of the perfect picture.
"It was dark and cloudy, and we thought there wasn't going to be a big sunset. We were about to leave when things started to change."
He grabbed the shot with his Nikon camera and later made a small change using the Lightroom editing software.
And this is where the bug crept in.
Lightroom offers two color mode options to export the end result - and the one it has chosen is the one that seems to confuse some Android phones.
He was not aware of the technical problem because he had never tried it.
"I didn't know the format would do this," he said. "I have an iPhone and my wallpaper is always a photo of my wife."
Agrawal has over 10,000 followers on the Flickr photography platform and his work has been published by National Geographic magazine.
"I was hoping my photography would go" viral "for good reason, but maybe it's for another time," he said.
"From now on I will use the other format."
For those who don't know the background, security partners Pen Test partners Ken Munro and Dave Lodge have an explanation of what went wrong:
"Since digital photographs have improved in quality, phones need to check what the" color space "of the image is to understand how to display it correctly.
"It's the way a phone knows how to display exactly the right shade of green, for example.
"There are several ways to define color space. Some spaces have special uses in graphic design, so sometimes you will see images that are not in the usual 'standard RGB' format. You can also deliberately create images that have more color information than some devices. they can manage.
"What happened here is that the way some phones handle these cases has gone wrong.
"The phone crashes because it doesn't know how to handle it properly and the software developers probably didn't think it could happen."