Can One Predict Sunsets? / Following the “circle of life”
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- Can One Predict Sunsets? / Following the “circle of life”
I spend a lot of time looking up at the sky and following the circle of life. Trying to figure out whether we will be seeing a nice sunset in the evening or a great sunrise. It’s pretty tricky business.
And I also do the same thing early in the morning but there’s not a whole lot you can see. I usually just lie in bed and try to have some sort of psychic experience that will tell me whether or not to go out.
But that doesn’t work very well as you can imagine. So as we often do I decided to go to the search engines and try to find an answer. This is an interesting discussion in a forum for photographers about sunsets. They talk about cloud formations.
Mid level clouds come up several times as promising for this sort of thing. And as I think back there may be something to this. The sun goes down and then it shoots rays up at an angle. If there are heavy clouds sitting on or near the horizon these rays don’t have a chance. But if there are thinner clouds further up the sun’s rays can penetrate whatever is near the horizon and reflect off of them. And then the light can bounce back down to earth and the happy photographer. I guess. Here’s the link for those who follow these things.
Once the sun goes down the rays start shooting up instead of down and interesting things begin to happen.
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David those pictures are amazing - but what I really want to comment on is the new look to your site, it is my favorite hands down! That picture is like from a fairy land and is just breathtaking, there is something so magical that draws me to it. On top of that great color coordination! It is going to be hard to beat this one as your homepage pic, at least in my opinion
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Thank you Evita. I am so glad you enjoy it and it will definitely stay up there longer because you took the time to say it.
Oh,lalalalala,sun….sun…oh…sun… how do you know that it is my favorite object of affection?hahahahaha. Oh,my gracious, sooooooooo amazing!
Both of these are really nice David, but I must say that the top one is amazing, really love all the color and clouds you captured in this. Well done !!
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Thanks Bernie. I like it too but the dark trees bother me. I am getting tired of dark areas in the middle of so many of my sun photos. But they grow along the river! What can I do?