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The clouds that were hanging around most of the afternoon, took a hike towards sunset. What it looked like when I got out to the pond... Local sunset and the only clouds left were on the horizon so I had to go with the 100mm... Best of the post sunset color...

This is going to be short and sweet tonight. Local sunset...

The upper low finally moved on and we had a sunset here for the first time in a number of days. About an hour before sunset, the clearing was finally moving through... Moved over to the right side of the pond and was shooting south as the edge moved overhead... There were just a few cloud stragglers at local sunset... And ending the evening with the post color looking to the east and the edge of the clouds...

Only cloud was to the east this evening. When I got out to the pond... About the max of the color, and that is not saying much...

A quick evolution of the sunset for tonight. These are the clouds I was hoping would be around for the sunset but they rolled through about one hour too soon... Shows just how fast the dry air was winning... About as good as the color was going to get....

Another extremely minimal sunset as far as clouds go, But the color was there, so I made the effort. There is only four minutes between these two images. Shows you just how quick the light fades as the Sun rounds away beneath the horizon.

Tonight was a lot more subtle. Just a gentle flirting. The Yellow... The Orange... And the Red...

My love affair with post sunset colorful clouds was renewed this evening. Whoever said that central Indiana is not pretty must have some pretty dark goggles on. Local sunset... The beginning of the orange. Need to pan a bit more south to get all the color... Still needed to stretch even more to the south to get every last drop... Max color dynamics and definitely in the oooh-aaah phase.... Last vestiges and time to roll over...

An approaching system sunset this evening. Not too shabby. Glad I was out there to see it. An overview of the sunset at 32mm... A more detailed look at 60mm...

Welcome to the Midwest. Glad to have you.

A nice evolution of the sunset tonight. Was not quite as cold either. Was able to gut it out to the very end. What I started with when I got out there. A little sundog on the north side of the Sun... As the Sun crept into the horizon... Going vertical to show just how prominent the contrails were... The red flash was well worth the wait. Glad I was on my toes. It came and went rather rapidly...

The weenie density is high over there.

It was just a tad chilly down at the pond this evening. Truth be told it was cold as sheetrock. Still was out there to see if the sunset did anything. What it looked like when I got out there... Some fringe color as it got late....

Kind of a minimal aspect to the clouds this evening. But I did max out the lens usage. With the 100mm... With the 16-35mm at 30mm... With the 24-70mm at 70mm...

Approaching system this evening. Probably was about two hours too early. But still had some stuff to shoot. A nice sundog on the south side of the Sun, when I got out to the pond... Wide angle as the Sun sank into the deeper clouds close to the horizon... Max dynamics as far as the color went... Here the color was fading so the blue started taking over...

Nice evolution this evening. Yellow pre-sunset... Close to local sunset... Wide angle post sunset... A little more focal length, if you call 35mm more, during the post sunset...

I had hoped that when and if the Sun snuck underneath the cloud layer close to sunset that I might get some good color. Was not to be the case. At 29mm. Best color was way off to the west. Best I could do at 100mm.

Departing system here again this evening. While not perfect, it was good enough for a small vivid red flash. Here is an overview at 35mm... And a more detailed look at 100mm...

It has been awhile. The time change helps. Not being sick anymore helps even more. The upper sixties helped the most. When I got to the pond. I liked the depth, the contrail remnants provided. That and there is a very, very slight partial halo and sundogs. Although those might be lost in the reduction for the site... About as good as the color was going to get to the west once the Sun disappeared behind the clouds... Looking to the east. I kind of went overboard with the blue in this one, But the cloud colors are real close It is what it is....

Departing system attempt this evening. The winds were still cranking at the time and it made it difficult to stand/kneel to take the shots. Also a windchill of 20 made me leave early to get back inside the warm car.

First time out at the pond for this year. Some nice color post sunset. As usual, thanks for all the views in the 2018 thread. I will be deleting those to make room of this years images as they come along.

The sine wave with the roofing material of that bike/bus stop awning at the very beginning was amazing from a physics/ math point of view.