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Both images of the post sunset this evening were taken with the 100mm. Not a lot of color but I was glad to be out there to document it. The orange flash... The red flash...

This is the sunrise from today, the 21st.. It is rather strange watching a sunset in reverse. The red flash... The actual sunrise... Post sunrise. I like all the levels of clouds and the various colors each different level have...

This was the sunset last night, the 20th.

The post sunset was rather vivid this evening...

Must be a phone ios issue. I have nothing on my desktop.

That was terrifying.

Best image of tonight was looking east. Just happened to catch a break in the cloud deck at the right time...

Got a couple of days behind here. These are from the sunset on the 13th. Horizontal, for the traditionalists... And vertical for the cellphone kids...

Pre-sunset looking east as I got out to the pond... Looking west as the Sun snuck underneath the billboard...

Check out the difference in soil temps for September, then for April. Might be an eye-opener.

As much as I hate all things winter and frozen precipitation, I do have to admit that after a four + inch of plaster snow, when the winds stay calm, things look very pretty. I feels so dirty just saying that I need to take a shower now.

^ lol

My sunrise service this morning... I like the contrail remnants in the upper right. That bright white really provides a nice counter balance.

The Gilbert Sebenste Sunset. Compared to the rest of the week, it was amazing. But it was more-or-less a rather blasé affair. First contact with the 24-70 @70mm. and a single image... Second contact with the 16-35 @21mm and a six image average... Post sunset with the 16-35 @24mm and a single image...

Now this is a spring pattern. March showers bring April water rescues. No wait, I think I have got that wrong.

And now for something completely different. A sunrise! I have to guess and hope that a sunrise might be decent but I got lucky this morning. With everything backward, start off with the red flash... A little more magnification as it heads towards orange... The actual sunrise...

After a full day of the perfect amount and type of clouds overhead that would make a great sunset, well everything evaporated as the evening progressed. But I still went out to the pond to record the color on the horizon, just for posterity sake. Looking north north east... Looking north west...

Nice eye candy. Is that your footage before the head-banging started, or is it stock footage from someone else?

There is a storm a-brewing. As I was driving home from work the Sun/clouds were throwing out sun-dogs. So I headed out to the pond just in case. When I got there, there was only this little tiny sun-dog on the left side of the Sun... As the sunset cruised along, I was surprised at just how interesting the sky got... It did not last long and all the color left really quick. So here is the last dregs...

Some faint and broad cloud shadows this evening.

Kind of figured the sunset would be iffy, but I was out there just in case. Pre-sunset when I got out to the pond... Best color of the evening... Way past the best time but I like the color...

Made it out to the pond for the sunset this evening. What I started with as the post sunset began... As you can see, the breeze was up and I was not sure if the color would progress anymore. Luckily, the color did at least try and with the coming darkness the breeze did calm down a bit. So I was able to try some reflection images. Here was the best contrast... And here was the best color. I can not figure out which of the two I like better...

Made it out to the pond for the sunset this evening. Got lucky that the retreating system hung on just long enough to give me some clouds to shoot. The bad news is that the breeze was up so no reflections stuff. The good news just running a straight lens without any filters allowed me to be spot on with the color. Started off at sunset with the clouds still white overhead.. The start of the orange overhead... The red was not quite as intense as I hoped. It was all kind of subtle...

A little bit of color in the sky during the sunset this evening. Probably should have made a trip out to the pond but I just took this from the front yard with all the buildings in the way.