Sunset between storm fronts, en route to Publix and Walgreen’s.

[full_metal_ox]

Taken on 21 June 2024 at 20:33 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time, as I hurried up the street through the break in the rain.





My limited equipment does the scene nothing even remotely resembling justice: neither the multi-layered gauzy rainbow-sherbet luminosity nor the grand theatricality of the skyscape, with the air of a vintage book illustration or a meticulously painted film backdrop. A detail I particularly like is the small dark cumulus cloud at bottom center that suggests a person astride a charging (pig? bear? huge dog?)

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[yarnandglue]

Beautiful! It reminds me of this meme :) https://preview.redd.it/oerqef3y25f81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3493a22e1b58a0dcb09e152de3f5928af8e4b135

[full_metal_ox]

Even more true of wildlife shots: wildlife behavior on an idyllic blue Chamber-of-Commerce day, when you’re all set with your blind and tripod and best Sunday camera, will be nothing but crickets (unless crickets were what you came hoping to film, in which case they’ll be AWOL.)

Wildlife behavior at 3 AM when you’re in your bathrobe taking out the garbage will be Michigan J. Frog belting out his ragtime song-and-dance routine.

[yarnandglue]

XD