Last night's sunset

[LCLimages]

From my front yard.

 

[Designer]

Very nice. I was tempted to crop much of the foreground off the bottom.

 

[snowbear154 84]

Nice color, and I don't mind the flare (it looks like flare). The road (?) is kind of funky, to me. Or it may be this other laptop I'm using.

 

[snowbear154 84]

I was typing when designer posted - yes, I'd crop the road.

 

[LCLimages]

I already cropped quite a bit of the road off, but yes I do like the edit with it gone. It's not a pretty road.

The "flare" is the sun rays. That's exactly what I was looking at when I shot it, and this was totally unplanned I just happened to notice the sun ray and threw my camera together. Didn't have much of a choice on foreground or location The big sun ray was gone in 5 minutes.

 

[D-B-J]

I already cropped quite a bit of the road off, but yes I do like the edit with it gone. It's not a pretty road.

The "flare" is the sun rays. That's exactly what I was looking at when I shot it, and this was totally unplanned I just happened to notice the sun ray and threw my camera together. Didn't have much of a choice on foreground or location The big sun ray was gone in 5 minutes.

I think they are called sun-pillars or light-pillars. A Google search revealed that they are called either [emoji106]

 

[JacaRanda]

Hopefully that wonderful light will shine on the Royals for one more series

 

[Heather Koch]

I actually like the road in the photo. But yes I also see that road "funk" ^

 

[Rick50]

Lovely color. Might also crop some off the top.

 

[Gary A.]

Firstly, well done. Nice capture.

I wouldn't touch the road. I'd crop from the top down to where the mass of curved clouds sorta starts or ends over on the left side. Then I'd burn in or clone out or both in order to remove all the homes and man made stuff except the empty road. I'd made it look like a solid band of black trees.

 

[jjphotos]

I don't think I agree with taking out the road. The road (imo) makes the picture alot more enjoyable.
I thought something like this would look nice. Hope you don't mind.

 

[JTPhotography]

Leave the road, it adds depth and give you a leading line. Crop off some of the gravel area near the bottom and a little of the dead space at top. Maybe play with the post processing to see if you can lighten the foreground, it is underexposed. Grad neutral density filters are great for these types of situations.

 

[LCLimages]

Ok... brought up the foreground a bit. Got rid of the houses. Better? I think so.

 

[JTPhotography]

Big improvement!

 

[Gary A.]

I like it.