Cloudy sunset behind power lines.
Tag: Sunset
Sunset into the clouds
Sunset Tree Silhouette
At Hahn Park in Los Angeles, looking west toward Santa Monica and Malibu.
Blue and gold sunset.
Blue and gold #sunset.
Wispy late afternoon clouds
Wispy late afternoon clouds. #sunset #clouds #silhouette #sky
Fleeting Rays of Sunlight
I’m fascinated by the interplay of sunlight and clouds, particularly oddly-shaped clouds and optical effects like haloes and sundogs. The trick with photographing them is that you have to take the picture now. You can’t run and get another camera and come back. You can’t wait until you reach your destination even if it’s only 5-10 minutes away.
Lighting conditions will change. A halo might get stronger, or it might vanish entirely. A cloud that looks like a flaming dragon or phoenix right now will be a dull gray in a few minutes. Patterns of rays will fade from view. I’ve missed my chance a lot of times by being stuck on the road, unable to find a suitable place to stop until the moment had passed.
This last shot is a circumhorizon arc formed by ice crystals. It always appears parallel to the horizon, like a flattened out rainbow, and if the crystals cover enough of the sky it will actually form a circle all the way around the sky. I spotted it while walking back to work from lunch and only had my phone with me — and I actually ran the rest of the way to the office so I could get my camera. I was lucky, since these really don’t appear very often.
Just another Friday night sunset in SoCal
Just another Friday night sunset in SoCal. #sunset #trees #palms #losangeles #silhouette
Landing in the California sunset
Power line sunset
Sunset: Smoke on the Water
Last Friday I went out to the beach to watch the sun set into the smoke layer from the Springs Fire and other wildfires burning near Los Angeles. More photos from this evening on Flickr.
The sun sets into the smoke plume from the wildfires burning near Los Angeles. In …
The sun sets into the smoke plume from the wildfires burning near Los Angeles. In the first shot, the smell of smoke mingles with the more usual smell of jet fuel near LAX. In the rest, I’ve moved onto Dockweiler Beach nearby. See also the Flickr Photoset.
Cloudy Sunset
Cloudy #Sunset
A more Tumblr-friendly version of my photos from going out to see Comet Pan-STARRS on …
A more Tumblr-friendly version of my photos from going out to see Comet Pan-STARRS on Tuesday evening. I went to a hillside park to get above the fog layer, and ran into a bunch of other people with binoculars, telescopes and more. Read on if you’re interested, or just enjoy the photos!
On TumblrLooking for comet Pan-STARRS last night. A lot of people had chosen the same hillside park…
Looking for #comet Pan-STARRS last night. A lot of people had chosen the same hillside park and were sharing their telescopes and binoculars as we watched the #sunset over the clouds, then the barely crescent #moon coming into view, and finally the comet itself. More at K2R: Comet Watch
Sunset Rainbow
Sunset Rainbow on Flickr.
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A nearly full semicircle, redder than usual, taken just minutes before sunset. I had to stitch two photos together to get the whole thing, which messed with the aspect ratio a bit.
Seaside at Sunset
Seaside at Sunset on Flickr.
Beach head at Seaside, Oregon, near the end of the Lewis and Clark Trail, just before sunset after a day of patchy rain.
Tree Shadows in the Fog
The fog was pouring over the ridge just before sunset, and just minutes after a solar eclipse. I’d gone up into the hills to get above the fog and watch the eclipse and discovered a sort of mini-festival of people who had all had the same idea. More photos & writeup of the eclipse.
