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Another time I was not planning on going out to the pond but a slight break up of the clouds on the western horizon close to sunset pulled me in for a quick shot...

Another approaching system evening. But there was a lot of cirrus which can be nice to look at.

Well this evening I had to sit out a brief downpour to get anything out at the pond. It was worth it in the end. Looking south east at the back side of the line of convection. Caught a decent cloud-to-cloud strike... Post sunset red color looking north east... Post sunset color looking north west...

From the front porch again as I was not expecting any color at all this evening. But the atmosphere surprises from time to time.

I kind of figured the dry air was going to win this evening but I went out to the pond anyway. Some faint cloud shadows at the top of this image... Sun sneaking out again... Local sunset... Post sunset color, what little there was...

Was a busy day behind the viewfinder. Started off while doing yardwork I looked up and saw a nice 22 degree halo around the sun while it was close to the meridian... Then it was onto the evening. This was looking south east when I got out to the pond... A look west when I first got there... Local sunset... And ending the evening with the post sunset color...

It was raining this evening so I did not go out to the pond. I was watching the hockey game instead. Lucky timing that right at the first intermission I noticed some color in the window shades. So I went out on the front porch and shot this even though it was still raining. So the quality is suffering here a little bit...

Did a flock of sandhill cranes make a bunch of nests in a ASOS sensor suite there?

This evening I could tell even from leaving work that the sunset should be a good color one. Mainly cirrus overhead with the system to the south of me still. My perceptions were verified. Local sunset... The view to the south east where the more serious clouds were... The extent of the color. Well as much as I could. This is at 16mm and it still could not record everything... The purples and reds and the last of the color.... Say goodnight Gracie.

Was not entirely sold on the sunset being something to look at, but I was out at the pond just-in-case. Local sunset... I figured the color would be shut off rather rapidly, so I pointed more up into the sky and got just about all of the clouds I could get before they disappeared... I figured if there was any color it would be way on the horizon so I shifted over to the 100mm lens... As I was taking to above image the red started to take off. So I had yo do another emergency lens change back to the 16-35mm. While I did miss the brightest part of the red flash, I still got a decent amount of red. Not bad for a final image of the night...

That blew up almost right on top of that radar. Too close?

Hooray! Finally mixed out most of the smoke. And even had a decent sunset for once. Good thing as the pattern looks to get wet again. Local sunset... Beginning of post sunset color... Extent of post sunset color... That's All Folks...

Been trying to get an image that shows the effect of all the smoke from the Canadian wildfires. Kind of hard to do. The satellite images do it better justice. But this evening A got two sort of decent images. In this one the sun is orange from all the smoke on the horizon while the clouds overhead are still white where you are looking through less smoke... In this one you can actually see the smoke in the blue part of the sky. Hopefully the reduction to fit on the server does no squash it...

Kind of threading the needle this evening. Had a little break right around sunset. Local sunset...

The unofficial start of summer. The Indianapolis 500 is history and written in the books. Fire up the grills and put the tops down on the convertibles. Had a great day behind the viewfinder again here in Indiana. Started off with a vivid rainbow... The sunset... A close-up of the max color dynamics... Stick a fork in it. This evening is over...

Got to love Mother Natures alarm clock. Took two close lightning strikes and had a fair blow. Think I will try and go back to sleep now. I had no intensions of getting up this early. It is my day off.

Two shots from the pre-sunset this evening. Looking south west... Looking north east...

I felt bad for the horse. You could see it had no problems with vehicles. But something going on with that guy in front of that other car really had the horse's attention as it drew close. Looks like the guy was fighting with a tripod. Was it a bang or clatter from it? Or was the guy on a Bluetooth phone and Reed Timmering and yelling at someone else. What ever something momentarily startled the horse and it sort of/ kind of lost it's gait for a nanosecond, but recovered well. Things like that can hurt a horse.

Sky conditions around sunset this evening...

This evening had a little bit of cirrus. A lot of contrail remnants. One or two recent contrails. But what I was really trying to image was a slight sun pillar. Hopefully you can see it.

Looking southeast when I got to the pond this evening. Was the backside of the dryline that moved through earlier... Here is a view to the east but in this one I used the GND filter. You can tell from the increased contrast in the image... Post sunset color, what little there was...

Another night that looked almost like a carbon copy of the previous evening. Only this time there were a lot of fishermen out at the pond. Trouble was they brought their non-fishing kids with them. The kids were taking sticks and constantly whacking at the algae. Kind of messed up the reflections. Pre-sunset... Post-sunset...

Last image for this page, I think. I was late getting out to the pond but it was a still evening and made for a nice reflection...

Went through the whole color wheel on the sunset again this evening. The first two images were with the 16-35mm. The second two with the 24-70mm. The white, when I got out to the pond... The yellow and the beginning of the post sunset... The orange... And the red...

lol. 82 at LAF while it is 52 at ORD. Guess you should not have moved up north.