Unbelievable sunset

Derrel · Sep 23, 2013

An EPIC high-five for Kay-Thor is now due...

(Notice the awesome sunset colors in the background!)

Tinderbox (UK) · Sep 23, 2013

I have got photo`s somewhere of double rainbows outside my front door, two years in a row exactly the same spot after a thunderstorm, i could not believe it, i had to take five or six photo`s and stitch them together, it only last 5mins and then it was gone.

I printed one out an put it on my wall, you can hardly see the second rainbow but it was there.

John.

astroNikon · Sep 23, 2013

I had this one from last Fall, from my backyard. I love the colors and sky permeating through.
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kathyt · Sep 23, 2013

astroNikon said:
I had this one from last Fall, from my backyard. I love the colors and sky permeating through.
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See, now were talking. I like my pastel colors.

pixmedic · Sep 23, 2013

I think Tinderbox's sunset shot with the trees is the nicest here.
i love the trees against the orange sky.
nicely shot Tinderbox!

astroNikon · Sep 23, 2013

kathythorson said:
See, now were talking. I like my pastel colors.

that was before I knew what RAW and post processing was too .. straight JPEG.

ooh, and you can see christmas lights on the houses in the background

Derrel · Sep 23, 2013

I was taught that sunsets are typically little more than hackneyed cliches...so I usually try to take them in a somewhat abstract or "pure color form" direction, or in some way add a bit of artistic flair. I seldom shoot them, except as snapshots...little "memory reminders".

This was actually rich and vibrant enough to make me point and click a bunch of frames. I think of these as "skyscapes", not really sunsets.

Tinderbox (UK) · Sep 23, 2013

Anybody like clouds, just too this one outside my front door, i will remove if off topic.

I thought they were an interesting clumpy shapes.

John.

astroNikon · Sep 23, 2013

kathythorson said:
I took this Friday night in front of my house. I have never seen colors this vivid except in Mexico. It was really pretty.

May I recommend that you take me to mexico to show me? Maybe a quaint straw shack on the ocean for a few weeks ? :wink:

astroNikon · Sep 23, 2013

Tinderbox (UK) said:
Anybody like clouds, just too this one outside my front door, i will remove if off topic.

I thought they were an interesting clumpy shapes.

John.

I love clouds. In my kids soccer shots streams one can see inadvertant pictures of clouds scattered throughout

cbarnard7 · Sep 23, 2013

I took this one while I lived in the Florida Keys...almost looks like the sun is just falling off the edge of the earth (since the earth is flat and all!)

amolitor · Sep 23, 2013

Now now, if posting a crummy picture along with some excuse was a crime, Tinderbox ain't the only person who'd be doing some time. Besides, the second one is quite nice.

Derrel · Sep 23, 2013

amolitor said:
Now now, if posting a crummy picture along with some excuse was a crime, Tinderbox ain't the only person who'd be doing some time. Besides, the second one is quite nice.

I only wish that this shot of me standing in front of the
Leaning Tower of Amolitor had been made at sunset....
but alas, it was just another blue-sky-and-pouffy-white-cloud kind of day...