Skirmish in the Sky

schmoo

... or just a cold front coming through.

Just one shot: yesterday evening we had the most jaw-dropping sunset. I am usually grumpy about nice sunsets when I'm home because my neighborhood, while nice, is not usually what I think of as photogenic. However this time I thought the sky was just too beautiful not to shoot. It really did look like this- all reds and orange on one side, dark steel clouds at the edges and behind me the sky was a clear cerulean blue (seen in the church windows):



It was pretty hot yesterday afternoon, and as nature promised I was shivering in my coat this morning. :lol3

Cuong

Ok, so what secret filter/technique did you use to create such an awesome scenery? Just kidding. That's a good catch. Nothing beats natural light shows.

Cuong

DavidTO

Schmoo!!!!

I love that sky. Must have been amazing to be there.

Tango

:bday ,
light like that seems to only come around what once a year...?

so mostest excellent

coscorrosa

Wow, what an amazing sunset! I love how the steeple divides the sky into the blue and orange parts, and the low-angled composition giving the church a more dramatic appearance.

I'm glad you found a subject for that fantastic sunset!

DaddyO

Very nice capture for sure. Love your title too.

pyry

And here I was thinking it was gonna be birds. Wow!

I've seen a similar situation once in my life, except everything was bathed in the orange light. It was wierd, like living in a sepia filtered world.

That is a winner right there Schmoo!

imonk

wow
heh I thought it was gonna be birds too. what a great image, percet composition with placing the steeple there. This would look great printed as big as you can!!

Richard

The end is near! Repent!

That's an amazing sky. Great capture.

jsmiley

Now that pops!! When we see something like that down here we look for more than rain..

John

Moogle Pepper

A calamity in the skies waiting to happen! Awesome capture!!

Eia

That is neat.
It reminds me of heaven and hell with the church steeple seperating the chasm.

~Eia~

eL eSs Vee

Another sucker who thought it was birds, here.

Awesome shot, Schmoo! Being it was natural makes it even more so! Love it!

Ann McRae

Awesome shot schmoo! Really spectacular.

ann

slflash

Great Capture Schmoo! Love the color. Great new haircut for you as well. Enjoy Scotland.

schmoo

WOW thank you everyone, for this positive response!


Sheila, we'll be missing you! Has it really been almost a year since Utah?

Travis

Awesome sky. Seeing something like that, I probably would have dropped the camera and started running for the hills thinking that fire was falling from the sky. The fact that the separation between the cool and the fire falls in line with the steeple of a church is just chilling.

javierplumey

Woah, where are the trumpets? Incredible timing on this one!

djspinner2k

I have seen something similar. right around the time the tornado warning is issued. I never have a camera handy. and it always seems to go from that to instant rain without a warning.

Awesome shot.

schmoo

Fortunately other than a very light sprinkle while it was like this, there was no immediate rain. The sun went to bed as usual, tucked in with clouds, and it proceeded to drop about 20 degrees overnight.

Interestingly, Ann took a shot of the same sunset, but about 40 miles south. It looks the same, but also different!

I actually have a lot of photos of the clouds right behind the steeple from different angles, but I hadn't processed those.

annaelycm

Whoa! What an amazing sky! Something like that doesn't come along very often, that is for sure!
You captured it well!

Anna