Posted By: Buddy Thomason
October Sky - different this year - 10/16/09 08:32 PM
These are from the past ten days or so. Fall can be wonderful in Colorado, yes, but I don't recall previous Octobers with the sunsets being like this every clear enough evening continuously since August. The fact is we've had a very extended monsoon this summer that continues into fall. The sun heats the mist that formed overnight, as would happen anywhere except more quickly at a mile high, which dissipates revealing a crystal clear day with a few clouds in the afternoon:
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Then as soon as it cools a little, around 5-5:30 pm, the slowly condensing clouds start to form thick layers just as the sun passes behind them:
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Seven or eight minutes later and just a few steps away - the density of those merging cloud layers put a mighty block on the sun letting the sensor capture a surprising amount of detail across the entire dynamic range (one shot, hand held, no filter).
3)
From a few days earlier, the full Harvest moon struggled to emerge briefly then disappeared for the night.
4)
If this means we're in for a big snow year, I'm up for it. We need a big snow year. Others may feel differently, of course.
1)
Then as soon as it cools a little, around 5-5:30 pm, the slowly condensing clouds start to form thick layers just as the sun passes behind them:
2)
Seven or eight minutes later and just a few steps away - the density of those merging cloud layers put a mighty block on the sun letting the sensor capture a surprising amount of detail across the entire dynamic range (one shot, hand held, no filter).
3)
From a few days earlier, the full Harvest moon struggled to emerge briefly then disappeared for the night.
4)
If this means we're in for a big snow year, I'm up for it. We need a big snow year. Others may feel differently, of course.