Smoke, Soot And Sunsets

saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
edited October 3, 2006 in Landscapes
The Day Fire, one of the largest wildfires in S. California's history is still claiming huge areas of forest land north of Los Angeles. The Day Fire, (started by accident on Labor Day) already has consumed nearly 200,000 acres. Over 4,200 firefighters are on the front lines of the blaze, trying to keep it away from populated areas on the Los Angeles-Ventura County border. It's costing more than a million dollars a day to bring under control.

The fire has made for some interesting sunsets this past month. I was on my way home from work and couldn't pass up dashing to a pre-determined vantage point to shoot this day's offering. I whipped out my wide angle for a view of the city, but the sunset was too far and the outcome was unimpressive. I switched to a telephoto and the results were entirely different. With the smoke and the rapidly disappearing sun, the changes were dramatic and interesting.


1st shot the sun is barely visible with a wide angle

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with a 200mm a totally different view
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  • Fred WFred W Registered Users Posts: 453 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2006
    Nice pics. I like the last one best. Love those inverted sunsets.thumb.gif
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited October 1, 2006
    Love the last ones. Reminds me of the old Jim Morrison line "...bloody red sun of fantastic LA." Guess that dates me a bit. Don't trust anyone over 70. rolleyes1.gif
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2006
    Love those last two pics, Saurora... thumb.gif
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2006
    Fred W wrote:
    Nice pics. I like the last one best. Love those inverted sunsets.thumb.gif

    Thanks Fred! :D
  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2006
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Love the last ones. Reminds me of the old Jim Morrison line "...bloody red sun of fantastic LA." Guess that dates me a bit. Don't trust anyone over 70. rolleyes1.gif

    Thanks Richard! Jim Morrison may be dead, but his music and lyrics still live on today, so I don't think quoting him would date anyone!
  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2006
    ChrisJ wrote:
    Love those last two pics, Saurora... thumb.gif

    Thanks Chris!
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2006
    Fires are great for sunsets saurora & you certainly got your moneys worth there. Many years ago Mt Pinatubo erupted in the philippines & we got months & months of sunsets down here with that depth of red as you caught.

    Very nice !
  • Scott_QuierScott_Quier Registered Users Posts: 6,524 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    Susan,

    #3 does it for me. It's really amazing to see the effect a change of perspective can make in a photograph.

    Thanks for sharing. I've learned another lesson from you and I really appreciate it.
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    Last one for me iloveyou.gif
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  • kkartkkart Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    Ya, that last one really does it for me! My g/f lives in Riverside and has been telling me the sunrises/sunsets out there have been really incredible lately due to all the haze and the fires
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    gus wrote:
    Fires are great for sunsets saurora & you certainly got your moneys worth there. Many years ago Mt Pinatubo erupted in the philippines & we got months & months of sunsets down here with that depth of red as you caught.

    Very nice !

    Thanks Gus...I waited all summer to catch a sunset from that site...of course, with no rain our summers are pretty cloudless. Unfortunate to have a fire, needless to say, but everyday brings a new sunset. Today was much clearer....the fire must be more under control with the rain over the weekend and this morning.
  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    Scott_Quier wrote:
    Susan,

    #3 does it for me. It's really amazing to see the effect a change of perspective can make in a photograph.

    Thanks for sharing. I've learned another lesson from you and I really appreciate it.

    Thanks, Scott...I learned something new myself! I kept thinking "wide angle" but it just put the sunrise too far off in the distance!
  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    kkart wrote:
    Ya, that last one really does it for me! My g/f lives in Riverside and has been telling me the sunrises/sunsets out there have been really incredible lately due to all the haze and the fires

    Thanks Kkart...we've had some amazing ones that's for sure!
  • DavidSDavidS Registered Users Posts: 1,279 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2006
    Wow!
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