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?)

Comments

[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