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  1. 0.33 in my tippy bucket but the radar estimate out of KIND says only a trace. It is what it is.
  2. Did not go out to the pond because it as still spitting rain drops. But there was a little color so I just took the camera out to the front corner of the property and hovered over the camera with my coat. Surprised I as able to keep the hair out of the images. I like how the wet roadway reflected some of the light... Zoomed in a bit ( to 35mm) to take most of the grocery out of the image...
  3. Once again was involved in a race with a Cu field, some dry air from the northwest and another system in Arkansas. Started the evening with some crepuscular rays when I got out to the pond... This was just before the Sun popped out of the cloud deck. I amn proud of being able to get the contrast and the colors almost perfect for the different parts of the sky. Getting yellow and blue at the same time is rather tricky... Of course I was hoping for some great color post-sunset, and this time I was well rewarded...
  4. Is this known as an UP long-term parking lot?
  5. Tonight as a race with the cold dry air and the Cu field. The cold air won but not before I got two images... When I got out to the pond... The last before the majority of clouds vanished...
  6. Was not a very comfortable evening at the pond. Only around 38 degrees when I got out there and the winds were still in the 15 to 20 mph range giving a real bite to the air. But there was something to look at so I bundled up and made a show of it. Looking south when I got out there. The silver and blue of the cirrus... The yellow as the Sun sank into the clouds on the horizon... Some faint orange around sunset. Looking southwest... And ending the night with a splash of red on the western horizon...
  7. Tis a blustery day, said Piglet to Pooh.
  8. Only one shot this evening. Taken from the front yard. I had just finished mowing the grass and this little bit of color flashed on. I like the gravity waves looking ripples from the light pole to the far right side of the image...
  9. Do you have 30 inches of room on your stake?
  10. ^ washboard roads, fun. Not!
  11. OK, I have learned my lesson. No more multitasking for me. If I am going to eat, just eat. If I am going to take pictures, just take pictures. Tonight was a success because I did not mix the two. Looking southeast when I got to the pond... Looking southwest right after I walked down to the water... About as close to the local sunset as I can get. Right in that little notch above the interstate. Max dynamics post sunset... I probably waited to late to go back to the 16-35mm for an overview but it is what it is...
  12. Did I ever make a whopper of a mistake this evening. 100% operator error. hen I changed lens before going to the pond I must have flipped it over to manual focus, and I never even checked before nor while I was taking the images. Only caught it when I downloaded all of them. The first image is the closest to focus as I bumped up the aperture to 22 trying to smooth the water out... I am only putting this last image up to see the colors. The focus is too hard to look at...
  13. Any idea how ambi-dexterous you have to be to eat pizza while taking sunset pictures? Looking south-southwest when I first got to the pond... Here is a look due west just before the clearing over-took everything in that direction... Back looking south-southwest just about as the Sun hit the horizon. About as much color as I as going to get....
  14. Squeeze play with the upper low to the north and the developing system pressing in from the south this evening. The low black clouds are from the upper low and the white and yellow clouds are from the system to the south... Some weak but strange shadows as the Sun sank lower... What little color there was close to sunset...
  15. Tonight was a race between the left over moisture and the dry air wrapping in from the west. The dry air won but I still got a couple of clouds. The white clouds were basically retreating to the east when I got out there... When it got close to the sunset there was only this lonely cloud to the southeast... Switched to the 100mm for the last gasp of color...
  16. I kind of violated the stay-at-home order this evening to get the sunset. Here I was at the local Pizza Hut waiting for my pizza to be done and took a pic in the parking lot with wires and trees of the white pre-sunset... After I picked up the pizza I made a speed run to the pond. What it looked like when I got there... Flipped over to the 100mm to get the deepest color post sunset...
  17. How soon you forget. Once it hits Spring, the mudder season starts in earnest.
  18. Today with all the rain and storms to come, I figured there was zero chance of any sunset action. After eating dinner I went outside to get the trash ready for tomorrow when I noticed some pink off to the east. walked around the side of the house and then sprinted back into the house to grab the camera. Some red sneaking above the IGA store across the street... Looking down the street to the west with all the trees and wires in the way....
  19. Nice sunset this evening. I thought there should have been some sundogs but they never appeared... Close to local sunset... What little color there was post sunset...
  20. Back from vacation. Not much to the sunset but it is good to get back into the groove...
  21. Could not leave on some vacation without sneaking in a sunrise at the start. I do like starting with the reds... And then ending with the yellows....
  22. Had a nice evolution for the sunset this evening. Started off at local sunset with the 16-35mm... Around max dynamics with the 16-35mm... Switched over to the 24-70mm for the last two images. Needed at little extra reach and both are around 46mm... Last image is the incidental light. Had a touch of red/maroon at the top... Made for a great end of the work week for me.
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