Photographing a Hazy Sunset
A new location, and a dry Saturday, and my camera!
We turned off the main road and drove down the narrow town road along the end of the lake. We were looking for an opening in the trees. There! A small parking area with fishing access. It looked like the perfect view
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Between recovery from knee surgery and weeks of rain, it had been a while since I’d gotten out to just be in a landscape. and watch the sunset.
It seems like forever since we have had a decent sunset. But mostly it’s just that I have not been getting out much. Over this past weekend, the weather finally looked promising at the end of the day. I had a list of locations locally that I wanted to check out. This one is at a small lake on a back road with a small parking area on the eastern edge of it. It was about a 30-minute drive from home so off we went
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Over the last week or two, we have occasionally had a hazy sky from smoke generated by wildfires hundreds of miles away. That added a haze to these shots, which gave the setting sun more color. However, it also muted the reflections in the sky and clouds. It seemed to make the sunset more colorful when the sun was above the horizon. However, after the sun went below the horizon, the color quickly went away. There was no reflection of color on the clouds.
It wasn’t an ideal evening with the haze, but the color was there, especially while the sun was still above the horizon. Most of all, it was refreshing just to be back out with my camera again.
Images were taken with a Fujifilm X-T5 and XF 16-55 f2.8ii zoom lens, mounted on a 3 Legged Thing tripod.
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just beautiful, I feel the peace and the beauty of this pictures,thank you for sharing this, I hope you are doing well after your surgery!! Have a good rest of the week :)