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2021-02-15: Golden Hour

Burning Sky

I love when the clouds are high enough to be lit from below by the sunset!

This was the night of the switch to the latest challenge. Just after I submitted my Single Point of Focus picture, I looked outside and saw the high, even cloud layer. I grabbed my camera, tripod, and an extra lens and raced over to my office building's parking lot. There were others up there taking advantage of the prime shooting location and glorious sunset. I just love when the clouds are lit from below like this. I'm hoping to get some morning clouds that look similar - I have a better place to shoot from. I might do another shot in the evening as well, if I get the chance, from the location of the next shot - shoot the lake's reflection of the burning sky.

Golden Anglers

The golden glow makes me think of phographs from the 1970s.

There's an ugly jpeg artifact on the thumbnail. Make sure to click through to the full screen view to see the picture without the jangly pixels around the person on the left.

This really shows the value of shooting a lot of pictures. I kept walking back and forth along the bridge, shooting this picture from different angles. I got pictures with ducks on the lake, ducks in flight, sun glare more or less prominent on the lake, more or less visible ripples. I hadn't intended to have the reeds in the picture at all, this shot was sort of a "well, as long as I'm standing here" thing. I wound up loving how the reeds pick up the golden sunlight, and the two anglers happened to be holding their fishing rods in a photogenic way. It all came together, largely because I shot about 35 pictures.