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Gorgeous evening out at the pond. Both physically and visually. Started off with some cloud shadows... Local sunset... What gives me the biggest thrills, the orange or red flash... For symmetry going to end the nigh with cloud shadows, just the over-the-horizon kind...

This evening a hole opened up overhead of the high altitude clouds. The low altitude kept forming, eroding and then reforming all sunset long. Gave me plenty to shoot. Starting out... Close to sunset... Goin to make a time break and head to late post sunset... Here comes some more low altitude stuff... Last image before the big billboard lit off...

Meanwhile KIND has had nothing. Nothing like a southeast ridge flexing it's muscle.

This is from the evening of the 27th. Was completely socked with clouds around five but by six the ridge started flexing it's muscle a bit and started clearing things out overhead. Looking east when I got to the pond around seven... Just this one cloud that was melting around sunset... An overview at sunset of orange at the horizon and white in the upper atmosphere... I thought there might be a chance of some crepuscular rays from the cells in Missouri. A nice way to end the evening...

This evening the colors were a little more muted. Some faint cloud shadows when I got out to the pond... More faint cloud shadows... Her you can see it trying to go red but failing. The cloud deck was too low to allow the light to reach the underside of the clouds... Always nice when the horizon goes the same color as the billboard. Helps hide that yellow monster a little bit...

Being close to the edge of the cloud shield, I hoped to get some decent color with tis sunset. I as not disappointed . The beginning of the post sunset, looking west... I as keeping an eye out over my shoulder, in case anything happened in the east. Good thing I was... Back to the west d the max extent of the orange... Beginning of the red... Max of the red color it was extremely vivid... This was as I was about to leave. The pink color as nice to see but what really drew my attention was the green color. Exquisite..

I did not go out to the pond because there were zero clouds from late afternoon on. Of course I forgot about distant cloud shadows. So I had to run to the courthouse to try and get away from as much wires and lights as possible when this occurred...

Had a little break in the cloud cover just before the rain drops started. Some crepuscular rays nd cloud shadows in this image...

These are from the evening of 9-21. I am late getting them downloaded and processed. Not a great sunset. It made me work for the images. Looking to the east hen I got there. You can see that the cloud shield is in the same place basically as the sunrise, just broken up a little bit more... Colors were not amazing so I really had to work hard to make the image look decent close to sunset... This is the best I could do with the post sunset colors and design. It is real close to actual colors and density. The blue might be just a touch over-cooked but if I take any more out the colors go wonky. So here is the best I could do, warts and all...

And now for something completely different, a sunrise. I was not able to go to my usual sunrise place, the fairgrounds, as they are having a treasure hunt today and had all access restricted so I just went to the pond as usual. So you will have to look at the firehouse and tractor repair buildings. Makes me kind of dizzy with everything backwards but starting off with the reds and some nice cloud shadows... Then onto the orange... Ending with the start of the white with the Sun breaking out. Looking to the south...

A typical kind of late summer evening at the pond. When I got there, there were plenty of clouds about. Too bad most of the succumbed once the Sun set and daytime heating as lost... Very little was left, just this lonely cloud to the south... And on the horizon ay in the distance... Did manage some broad and diffuse crepuscular rays extremely late into the sunset...

Another good night behind the viewfinder. When I got to the pond. Look at how far south of the billboard the Sun is now!... The start of the red flash with the 24-70mm... A close-up of the red with the 100mm... I kind of hoped that when the Sun got underneath the stuff in Missouri, that it might do a little something extra. I like the red spikes above the oranges on the horizon...

Was a picture perfect evening out at the pond. Ha-Ha! When I got out there, there was a not-quite sundog. Not quite arc segment. But a some kind of mash-up of the two on the north side of the Sun... Some orange... Some red creeping in from the north side... The last dregs of red, those two spikes above the yellow on the horizon that is blotting almost everything else out...

I knew that all the good stuff was going to be way west on the horizon. And it was. When I got out to the pond... Here I had the wrong lens on. I as ready in case I got some violet but none ever showed up. Then had a red flash wayyyyy over on the south west horizon. Oh well, it is tiny but it is there to see, if you squint... By the time I switched to some more focal length, it had rotated more to the west...

Lots of clouds and lots of images this evening. Better get to it. What it looked like hen I got out to the pond... A change in perspective can really change how things look. Here is basically the same sky as above but just the upper left part of it... And now the right side of the image alone... Now back to the color, the orange... And to the red... This last one is just for me. You probably would not believe just ho late this was. All incidental light...

I could nit-pick and say I wish the clouds would have been 50 miles farther east this evening. But it as good to have some color to play with so I am OK with how things turned out. Some orange... Some red... And this as shot just before the main billboard lit off. I purposely shot it dark, trying to keep the deep reds and oranges from blowing out the sensor. It made for a rather dark image but I got the contrast of the colors correct across the image...

Seems the NWS is having some network issues, so I have no idea what KIND made it up to today. But even if it as a tick cooler than yesterday, it felt a lot more uncomfortable in the humidity department.

Four more weeks? Standing by this call still?

KIND made it to 92.

Was not sure hat this sunset was going to look like. Was not sure if the system west of me would give me anything. When I got to the pond... Close to sunset... There was a small and brief red flash. It as only due south of me and did not last long. I combo'd it with the western horizon color here... A close up of the western color just before the closest billboard lit up and messed with the colors...

Ooops. I am a bit late getting the images downloaded, sorted and crammed down so these are from the sunset from 9-7. If you look at these at a later date. Kind of interesting to watch the clouds decrease as the sun sets. When I got to the pond, looking south east... Pre-sunset... Post sunset... And the late red flash. Not much red and very diffuse and short-lived. Looking at the satellite now I am amazed it was as good as it was...

Tonight was about the post sunset color. Starting out with the sky behind going to yellow... With the red tinging in on the blue sky, it started the almost violet color up... Switch to vertical to get all the violet color and the way I was feathering the GND kind of fooled the white balance of the camera again. Still made the contrast of clouds correct but the color might be a bit off. I still like the result... And as the color was leaving the sky overhead, of course the horizon goes super saturated...

I wonder where that boundary/front was? Oh yeah, checking the visual satellite at sunset said, "Right Over My Head".

This evening was quite interesting out at the pond. Some cloud shadows when I got out to the pond... I like this one because I think I actually followed the rule of thirds for once... I like all the different colors in this image. The Moon also takes it a step farther... I might have gone overboard with the contrast in this one... Walking back to the car at the end I looked to the south-southwest and I could not pass up a shot that went from the horizon to past overhead at 16mm. The Moon looks like more of a sensor error but I think it is cool when you know what it is...

All of the clouds disappeared as the sun sank to the horizon. I had to find other things to look at. Here the Sun was doing a balancing act on top of a power pole. Also in the reflection in the water, you can see the straight line of the power pole at least in full resolution RAW image. Hopefully you can see it in the squished down version... Beginning of the post sunset color... End of the post sunset color. I hope you can see the faint and broad cloud shadows that look like they came from the tops in south central Iowa well over the horizon...