bowtie` Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Did I ever make a whopper of a mistake this evening. 100% operator error. hen I changed lens before going to the pond I must have flipped it over to manual focus, and I never even checked before nor while I was taking the images. Only caught it when I downloaded all of them. The first image is the closest to focus as I bumped up the aperture to 22 trying to smooth the water out... I am only putting this last image up to see the colors. The focus is too hard to look at... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 OK, I have learned my lesson. No more multitasking for me. If I am going to eat, just eat. If I am going to take pictures, just take pictures. Tonight was a success because I did not mix the two. Looking southeast when I got to the pond... Looking southwest right after I walked down to the water... About as close to the local sunset as I can get. Right in that little notch above the interstate. Max dynamics post sunset... I probably waited to late to go back to the 16-35mm for an overview but it is what it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted April 11, 2020 Author Share Posted April 11, 2020 Only one shot this evening. Taken from the front yard. I had just finished mowing the grass and this little bit of color flashed on. I like the gravity waves looking ripples from the light pole to the far right side of the image... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 Was not a very comfortable evening at the pond. Only around 38 degrees when I got out there and the winds were still in the 15 to 20 mph range giving a real bite to the air. But there was something to look at so I bundled up and made a show of it. Looking south when I got out there. The silver and blue of the cirrus... The yellow as the Sun sank into the clouds on the horizon... Some faint orange around sunset. Looking southwest... And ending the night with a splash of red on the western horizon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Tonight as a race with the cold dry air and the Cu field. The cold air won but not before I got two images... When I got out to the pond... The last before the majority of clouds vanished... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 Once again was involved in a race with a Cu field, some dry air from the northwest and another system in Arkansas. Started the evening with some crepuscular rays when I got out to the pond... This was just before the Sun popped out of the cloud deck. I amn proud of being able to get the contrast and the colors almost perfect for the different parts of the sky. Getting yellow and blue at the same time is rather tricky... Of course I was hoping for some great color post-sunset, and this time I was well rewarded... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Did not go out to the pond because it as still spitting rain drops. But there was a little color so I just took the camera out to the front corner of the property and hovered over the camera with my coat. Surprised I as able to keep the hair out of the images. I like how the wet roadway reflected some of the light... Zoomed in a bit ( to 35mm) to take most of the grocery out of the image... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 The back edge of the back side of this last system was right along the Indiana/ Illinois border this evening. Thought there might be a little color sneaking in post sunset. I was right! With the 24-70mm At 43mm. The max orange... With the 100mm at 100mm of course. Max red... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 All of the images from tonight was with the 16-35mm. Last glimpse of the Sun for the day. At 35mm... This shows how the blues can take over when the Sun gets behind the clouds. At 22mm... As I gave up and was walking back to the car. Looking southeast at 16mm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 Approaching system sunset this evening. When I got to the pond looking south... Had a rather bright sundog on the south side of the Sun when I got to the water... I might have gotten a little heavy handed with the contrast and shot it al little bit too dark but I still like the way this looks... More of an overview here... Going to end with a partial of the sky with a rather neat looking burnt orange color... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 4, 2020 Author Share Posted May 4, 2020 Tonight is a special with the three trees to the southwest of the parking area at the pond. I did not go down to the water because it looked like the best viewing would be more to the south. I got there when the back edge of the low level moisture was exiting the area... The only thing left for sunset was some cirrus blow off from the MCS a couple of states south of me. At sunset with the cirrus still sort of white... The best orange... The best red... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 A lot of waiting for not very much this evening. Tried to get the rising full moon with some sunset colors looking to the southeast but the colorswere very muted and I blew out the moon... Post sunset color with some Canadian geese photobombing me. Most of the time I would throw the image out. But seeing how they are toward the side of the image I am going to post them up this time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 8, 2020 Author Share Posted May 8, 2020 Going just with one image tonight. A view to the east-northeast. About the best I could do with the conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 Even though it was chilly, it was a nice sunset this evening. When I got there, the expanse of the cirrus... The yellow/orange... And looking mostly north for the little red of the evening... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 16, 2020 Author Share Posted May 16, 2020 Been a long six days since I made a trip out to the pond. Needed to rectify that. Close to local sunset... Keeping an eye out behind my right shoulder, I saw the color coming on to the northeast... As the red was entering the viewfinder looking to the west again... Max extent of red... Max red dynamics just before it faded on the western horizon. Just a little over-the-top... Good night my darlin', wherever you are... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share Posted May 24, 2020 Just a little bit of color for the sunset this evening. The yellows just after sunset... The reds as the color started to fade... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 After dinner I went to the pond but only able to get this one click of a tiny Indiana tower before the drops ran me off back home... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 26, 2020 Author Share Posted May 26, 2020 Had something to shoot this evening. When I got to the pond, looking southeast... A short but vivid rainbow segment showed up rather suddenly... First look west when it was still blue... Second look west as the yellows came on... Last look west with the colors as deep as they were going to get... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 Not much to the sunset this evening. Just stayed in the front yard. What little color there was... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 Just a smattering of clouds for the sunset this evening. Pre-sunset... Close to local sunset... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 What it looked like when I got out to the pond this evening... Close to local sunset... Max dynamics on the orange... I hoped the red would take off to the west but all I had were these smudges... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 Started off this evening with some vivid crepuscular rays... Moved on to some more subtle crepuscular rays... Back to an extremely vivid cloud shadow... Had a little bit of decent color, the beginning... Best definition of the red... As the red was waning... Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 5, 2020 Author Share Posted June 5, 2020 Departing system timed out rather well this evening. Starting with a sundog on the south side of the Sun as it snuck under the overcast... Around max yellow... What little orange there was... I was really hoping for some strong red but I think the convection in Iowa turned off the spigot just when the red would have started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 6, 2020 Author Share Posted June 6, 2020 I almost did not go out to the pond. There as some cloud cover here and I thought it might just persist. But at the last second I got nervous and headed out. Good thing I did. What it looked like when I got out to the pond... But then suddenly there was a bunch of definition to the sky. The yellows... Now on to the orange... And finishing up with a little bit of red... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 9, 2020 Author Share Posted June 9, 2020 As the Cristobal remnants invade the area. When I got out to the pond... While waiting to see if I got any post sunset color, I put on the 24-70mm because I figured it would be on the horizon if I got any at all... Quickly found out I needed to switch back to the 16-35mm because the red got so expansive... Last image of the evening with the red vacating the area... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 10, 2020 Author Share Posted June 10, 2020 I got lucky and a sucker hole opened up just at the right time this evening. So I as able to get a quick image from the front yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 Tonight was all pre-sunset. Looking northwest... Looking southeast... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 Just one image this evening of some orange. Taken from my front yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 Had northeast flow in the lower levels of the atmosphere. While the mid levels were under northwest flow. It gave me something to shoot this evening. Close to local sunset... For some reason the fishermen and ladies all left and left me the fisherman point which worked well for the clouds to the southwest... About as good as the color was going to get looking to the west. But that is not saying much... Some better color happened to the north. And a much better way to end the evening... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 16, 2020 Author Share Posted June 16, 2020 Started off the evening with a precious metal sunset. Diamonds in the rough... The gold of sunset... In this last one, the western sky looked rather smokey after sunset. It was most vivid just as the color as leaching from the sky... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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