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After a wash out the night before, I was back at the pond this evening. A bit of a rainbow when I got there... Local sunset... Starting to go orange. And I like the shower on the left side of the image... I kept my head on a swivel and noticed the clouds to the east were getting lit up big time... Back to the west for max red... And ending the night with the scrap reds and the smoke/haze on the horizon...

Some more nice color tonight. The yellow... The orange starting to creep in... The serious orange with the red slithering in from the top... The departing red/almost purple... Way past sunset and this is all incidental light. Usually the blues go all wonky this late but this image seems to be close to balanced...

Was not sure what was going to happen with the sunset this evening. But of course I was out there just in case. When I first got out there everything was grey and blue and kind of boring... After some time started getting some broad crepuscular rays from over the horizon... Suddenly the Sun rounded the corner on the horizon and it was like someone flipped a switch. More crepuscular rays... What happened next made all the effort of keeping the rain drops off of the camera and not heading indoors when the thunder roared. This made my jaw drop. I could feel the texture in the sky as it was all encompassing. Even at 16mm as I am here I still chopped a lot of it out. It was glorious... The red was not too shabby itself. Well worth the missed sleep with these late colors... Good night my darlin' wherever you are...

The system to my west stayed away just far enough to give me another colorful sunset. Local sunset... The yellow... The Orange... The reds... In this image I think a penguin is chasing something in the western sky...

I had hoped it would be severe clear so I could catch up on some sleep but nooooooooooo. Some clouds were invading from the southwest and made it another colorful sunset. When I got to the pond just after local sunset... Did not take long for the yellow to complete the semi-circle... Max orange... Max red... Good night my darlin' wherever you are...

I had a sneaking suspicion that it might be a decent sunset tonight. When I got to the pond looking west... Looking north... Local sunset... The post sunset as rather vivid...

There was a lot of cirrus for the sunset this evening. What it looked like hen I got there... Had so much to shoot, I had no idea which lens to use. The 24-70 for some close up stuff... Or the 15-35 for some wide angle stuff... Start up of the jet engine... Cool down of the jet engine...

Two decaying clouds when I got out to the pond this evening... Some pre- sunset action to the northwest... Post sunset action to the northwest... Looking due west you can see what looks like smoke or at the least very dense haze on the western horizon...

^ if the Houston to London flights are still ongoing, they ought to be able to shave a few minutes off of the flight time.

Tonight was all about the views to the south and the east. Starting off when I got to the pond with a view to the south... Followed up with a view to the east... Then a combo view of the south and the east... And ending the evening with a little color to the east...

Had two stints behind the viewfinder this evening. First was downtown after work for the mammatus cloud. Then later at the pond for the sunset. The mammatus and the Courthouse... The mammatus and the traffic signals... And now onto the sunset in three easy steps, one... two... three...

Tonight I got out a lens I hardly ever use anymore, the 100-400mm. There were just a handful of clouds this evening and they were pretty far out on the western horizon so I needed the extra reach. At 220mm the beginning of color... At 220mm again and the last of the color...

Back at the pond this evening, An overview at the beginning of the post sunset... Last of the color before everything got shut off from the stuff to the west of me...

It did a number on that tree.

This evening there were thundershowers around the area. So I needed to leave my beloved pond and head north of town. Found a bean field with a decent view to the west and north. Close-up pre-sunset... More of an overview pre-sunset... Local sunset... Post sunset looking northwest... Post sunset looking west...

The common theme to this evening as crepuscular rays. Started off with some nice rays... And the hits just kept coming... Even had to tip back to get more vertical to get the rays... Back to the horizon with faint rays... Even the post sunset had rays... This last one is for only the ardent, hardcore atmospheric optics lovers. Anti-crepuscular rays. Rays heading off to the vanishing point in the eastern sky. Not something you see a lot of in Indiana but here they are... Cheers!

The atmosphere tried to give me another jet engine sunset. Local sunset... Early post sunset color... Late post sunset color... Bonus image: In the distance to the south of the sunset color advancing up the flanks of a cell between Indianapolis and Bloomington...

Back to the regular scheduled evening clouds. The jet engine was rather vivid pre sunset... More of an overview... Local sunset... And ending the evening with max red...

What the heck. Sky conditions this evening were partly cloudy with scattered fireworks...

While waiting for the real fireworks, I grabbed some sunset images at the middle school. The orange... The blue... *note; the fireworks in the corner are there to confirm that this was the sunset from the Fourth.

Once again, nothing special. But I did have to go out and document it. Local sunset... Early post sunset color... Late post sunset color...

Tonight everything was in the distance on the western horizon. Some sort of nice color though. Local sunset... The yellow... The orange... And the red...

Nothing special this evening. But better than nothing. Pre-sunset, hen I got out to the pond... Local sunset... Post sunset...

Started off the day around noon and some cumulus amid other junk... When I first got out to the pond for sunset... More of an overview... Last image before the color faded...

Tonight is about the evolution of a popcorn pop-up thundershower. Happened between me and Lafayette and happened right at sunset. So I was there to document it. What I started with when it got out to the pond... 17 minutes later, look how it has grown... 26 minutes later the Sun peeked around the skirts of the cell... 14 minutes later, my look how big it has gotten and such nice crepuscular rays... 8 minutes later, zoomed into the skirts for the color... 3 minutes later, more of an overview of the color area as it was fading... For a sum total of 68 minutes from the first image to the last image. Say good night Gracie.