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 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?)

Comments

[cmcmck]

What a glorious sky!

[full_metal_ox]

Thank you! The parking lot arrows have the air of pointing to a grand adventure.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Gorgeous!

[shirebound]

Lovely. I vote for huge dog!

[full_metal_ox]

And a hobbit as the rider?

[shirebound]

But of course! (LOL, I actually wrote a story about that, called "The Gift of Healing".)

[full_metal_ox]

Link, if you’d be good enough?

[shirebound]

Of course!

http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=4995

[full_metal_ox]

“Speak, and sit, and stay, Friend.”

Were it not that, having discerned the need, she’ll already be doing those things. Thank you for passing that along!

[kaishin108]

That is just gorgeous. So metallic looking too. I like how you have the color palette there too.

[full_metal_ox]

Thank you! The adjective “metallic” hadn’t occurred to me at the time, but I can see it in the pewter tone of the overcast-filtered twilight.

Color is a lifelong special interest of mine; I make those colorpicked palettes using a free online tool, as explained here.

[kaishin108]

I don't think I have ever used that word metallic when looking at a photo, it's really just lovely. Thank you for that link!

[full_metal_ox]

A detail you might enjoy is the circular crescent formation at center—which initially struck me as a shrimp, but can also read as a rabbit facing left, leaping up with its back arched.

[kaishin108]

Yes, lots of different things to see there! It is like a rorschach test :D

[independence1776]

That is lovely!

[full_metal_ox]

Thank you. I count myself fortunate to have caught that specific moment.

[puddleshark]

What a fabulous skyscape. It has everything! Dazzling and just a little sinister...

[full_metal_ox]

A detail that the cloud cover doesn’t show was the Full Solstice Moon, furthering the immersive portentous feeling of the night.

[turlough]

It's a wonderfully dramatic sunset!

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, I've often found what the camera sees is not at all what I'm seeing. But it's still great color!

Tasty

[jesse_the_k]

these colors capture rainbow sherbet perfectly. (As far as the animal goes, I vote dragon)

Re: Tasty

[full_metal_ox]

It was the sort of evening that transformed salad spinach, blue corn chips, pot-size angel hair pasta, Cherry Coke Zero, and Bing cherries into the treasure haul from an Epic Fantasy Quest.

[pilottttt]

Nicely. It suggests mystical thoughts.

[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