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Well I lost the race this time. The upper level low finally got out of the area but about an hour too soon to get any sunset color. But I did get out to the pond in time to catch a cloud or two before they evaporated in the dry air. Looking east when I got out to the pond... And some cloud shadows looking west...

Tonight was another race with the intruding dry air and the receding system. A sunset overview at 16mm... The sunset at 35mm... Post-sunset color at 100mm...

Tried something different this morning, a sunrise. I was up and I thought there was a chance at a colorful one. A close-up with the 100mm... An overview with the 16-35mm...

Was an evening for the 100mm tonight. Some neat pill box clouds pre-sunset... Local sunset... The red flash was a rather sparse display...

Was out at the pond, just in case, this evening. Pre-sunset and you can see the algae bloom in the pond which was rather severe... Post-sunset had the proper placement and type of clouds but the color never took off. The storms in Nebraska and Kansas blotted out the best light. Still the best that I got...

Finally! After a long week of only grey skies and rain, we managed to dry out just in time for the sunset this evening. Local sunset... The orange... And ending on a high note, the red...

It is back up here now also. Whatever it was it was obviously a very temporary issue.

Odd that the 88 for IND is down but the radar message says that it is up for service. Must be a network issue. Maybe IndyMeso will look in and give us a heads up. Or maybe not.

Tonight was a race with a boundary heading just south of me. Ended up being a decent color night. Pre sunset with a nice bronze color... Post sunset with the beginning of the red flash... After a frantic lens change to the 16-35mm, the last of the red...

The clouds that were hanging around most of the afternoon, took a hike towards sunset. What it looked like when I got out to the pond... Local sunset and the only clouds left were on the horizon so I had to go with the 100mm... Best of the post sunset color...

This is going to be short and sweet tonight. Local sunset...

The upper low finally moved on and we had a sunset here for the first time in a number of days. About an hour before sunset, the clearing was finally moving through... Moved over to the right side of the pond and was shooting south as the edge moved overhead... There were just a few cloud stragglers at local sunset... And ending the evening with the post color looking to the east and the edge of the clouds...

Only cloud was to the east this evening. When I got out to the pond... About the max of the color, and that is not saying much...

A quick evolution of the sunset for tonight. These are the clouds I was hoping would be around for the sunset but they rolled through about one hour too soon... Shows just how fast the dry air was winning... About as good as the color was going to get....

Another extremely minimal sunset as far as clouds go, But the color was there, so I made the effort. There is only four minutes between these two images. Shows you just how quick the light fades as the Sun rounds away beneath the horizon.

Tonight was a lot more subtle. Just a gentle flirting. The Yellow... The Orange... And the Red...

My love affair with post sunset colorful clouds was renewed this evening. Whoever said that central Indiana is not pretty must have some pretty dark goggles on. Local sunset... The beginning of the orange. Need to pan a bit more south to get all the color... Still needed to stretch even more to the south to get every last drop... Max color dynamics and definitely in the oooh-aaah phase.... Last vestiges and time to roll over...

An approaching system sunset this evening. Not too shabby. Glad I was out there to see it. An overview of the sunset at 32mm... A more detailed look at 60mm...

Welcome to the Midwest. Glad to have you.

A nice evolution of the sunset tonight. Was not quite as cold either. Was able to gut it out to the very end. What I started with when I got out there. A little sundog on the north side of the Sun... As the Sun crept into the horizon... Going vertical to show just how prominent the contrails were... The red flash was well worth the wait. Glad I was on my toes. It came and went rather rapidly...

The weenie density is high over there.

It was just a tad chilly down at the pond this evening. Truth be told it was cold as sheetrock. Still was out there to see if the sunset did anything. What it looked like when I got out there... Some fringe color as it got late....

Kind of a minimal aspect to the clouds this evening. But I did max out the lens usage. With the 100mm... With the 16-35mm at 30mm... With the 24-70mm at 70mm...

Approaching system this evening. Probably was about two hours too early. But still had some stuff to shoot. A nice sundog on the south side of the Sun, when I got out to the pond... Wide angle as the Sun sank into the deeper clouds close to the horizon... Max dynamics as far as the color went... Here the color was fading so the blue started taking over...

Nice evolution this evening. Yellow pre-sunset... Close to local sunset... Wide angle post sunset... A little more focal length, if you call 35mm more, during the post sunset...