Blue and gold #sunset.
Tag: 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
Power line sunset
Looking 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.
Via Flickr:
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.
Mt. Hood at Sunset
Sunset: Orange Bands
Orange Clouds Above the Mountains
Orange clouds above the Santa Monica mountains during yesterday’s #sunset.
Orange clouds above the Santa Monica mountains during yesterday’s #sunset.
Sunset Clouds Above Downtown LA (2/2)
Sunset Clouds Above Downtown LA (2/2) on Flickr.
Gorgeous day after a rainstorm. I kept checking to see whether the San Gabriel Mountains had snow, but the clouds never quite lifted. Even at sunset only the lower slopes were visible…but those clouds made for some spectacular sunset viewing.
Eucalyptus sunset
Tonight’s sunset over Santa Monica Bay…
Tonight’s sunset over Santa Monica Bay, seen from Dockweiler Beach in El Segundo. Full photoset at Flickr.
Orange clouds underlit by the sunset
Orange clouds underlit by the sunset
Maxfield Parrish Sky
Maxfield Parrish Sky, originally uploaded by Kelson.
One night last October, I stepped out of the office building and felt like I’d stepped into a Maxfield Parrish painting. The whole sky looked like this. (Or at least the half that was visible.) It literally stopped me in my tracks.
I spent the next 15 minutes walking around the parking lot, watching the lighting on the clouds change as the sun set and taking pictures.