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Spotty showers in the area around sunset. That meant there as a chance of some rainbows. I had to head to the pond just in case.

 

Literally when I rolled up to the pond. Fell out of the car, popped open the umbrella, through the tripod down and hit the shutter. Glad I was close to level...

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The other side of the rainbow and after a change to the 16-35mm trying to get more of the bow...

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A bit later and an image of the whole cell that gave me the rainbow. You can still see a stub of the rainbow glowing quite well...

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The clouds were fading around sunset as the system from earlier in the day departed the area.

 

Looking east when I got out to the pond...

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The bronze color as the Sun gets closer to the horizon...

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The gold color as the Sun disappears into the trees...

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Once again, Delta's skirts were around the area for sunset.

 

Looking west when I got out to the pond...

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THe beginning of the post sunset color, looking south-southeast...

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Back to the west for post sunset color...

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The best over-the-top color was looking south-southwest...

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Cheers!

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Delta's remnants were a bit thicker here this evening.

 

What it looked like when I got out to the pond...

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Here I oriented a lot higher to get more of the overhead clouds. Interesting to see how the color balance changes when you do this...

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Cheers!

 

 

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Tonight we had the perfect frontal passage as far as the timing for a nice sunset. After a month of benign conditions I forgot how much a struggle taking pictures in a stiff breeze was like. But I made it through it. These three images are all taken at 31mm and occurred within a four minute window. Shows how much things can change and still be sort of the same. So here are the three in the order that I took them...

 

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Had a little bit of cirrus around for the post sunset. Was kind of breezy again with gusts around 30mph when I took these. Both of these images were taken with the 24-70mm lens. It is the Mark I version of this lens and there is a reason they nicknamed it "The Brick". It is quite heavy and helped stabilize the tripod and mount with it's heft.

 

When I got out there at 38mm...

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A bit later at 70mm...

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Once again the frontal passage timed out perfect for the sunset this evening. But I am going to start missing these in the future during work days. I just managed to make it out at the last possible moment.

 

Looking east as soon as I rolled out of the car getting there...

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Next I shifted to the northeast as the orange started creeping into the area...

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Then I ran down to the pond to get the yellow and orange on the western horizon...

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A bit later as the reds started creeping in...

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The last image of the night was taken with the 24-70mm. The previous four images were all taken with the 16-35mm. Just a hint of a sun pillar with this image...

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Good night my darlin', where ever you are...

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Was not expecting much this evening. But seeing how I have this problem of needing to take sunset pics, of course I was out there.

 

When I got there the Sun peeked out and spot-lit some clouds...

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If this was the best of the color I would have been happy...

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But I was surprised by what happened next. I will say in the next two images I am not happy with the blue in both images. But when I tried to knock it down the images either went too yellow or too green. So the wild blue will stay.

 

When the red flash occurred I had the 100mm on seeing how I thought if any red did occur, it would be well to the south of me. So I was only able to image part of the red when it originally happened...

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After a frantic lens change to the 24-70mm, I as able to better show just how much of the horizon went red. And boo-hiss to the excessive blue...

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Cheers!

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Was out at the pond again this evening.

 

Just after sunset, while there still as some white in the clouds...

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While there was s smidge of red, there was not enough to call it a red flash. Maybe a burnt orange flash? Umber flash? Whatever it was, here is the last of the evening...

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Threw the whole paint bucket at tonight's sunset.

 

Looking southeast when I got out to the pond and the white...

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Beginning of the post sunset and the yellow with some crepuscular rays...

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The beginning of the red up high and some even more prominent crepuscular rays...

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There was a narrow plume of, I am guessing smoke, from Iowa to Illinois. Made for an extreme violet flash. This looks almost photoshopped but it is not. Amazing color!

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Good night my darlin', where ever you are...

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Had a gorgeous sunrise this morning.

 

Started off with some vivid red...

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The extent of the orange...

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A look to the south...

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The last of the yellow...

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Only one from the sunset this evening.

 

The brief red flash...

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Cheers!

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Last sunset of Autumn. Was a decent sunset and fortunately happened on my one day off of the week.

 

Local sunset. And look how far south the Sun is. The almanac says it sets at 240 degrees. 30 degrees south of due west.

 

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The red was rather sparse and spread out...

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Merry Christmas everyone. The sunset was nice this evening. The temps and conditions ere not. Around five (when these were shot) KIND was reporting 13 with a wind chill of -2. It was kind of brutal especially down at the water.

 

The yellow

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The orange...

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And for the red I had retreated back to the car because I had hit the cold limit. There is new construction going on there with equipment and stone piles. I was able to shot around the equipment but the stone piles had to stay in...

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Cheers!

 

 

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