I was wrapping up my workday in my home office today. Donna comes in and says, “Don’t tell me you’re not outside appreciating this sunset!”
“What sunset?”
I grabbed the first camera to hand, the Sony with a 50mm lens on it. I stepped outside, was briefly taken aback but plunged on to the edge of the back deck. I turned the camera vertical, and carefully took shots on an even line from left to right. I made this panorama from those seven shots.
I returned to the office, and got my Serious Camera set up with the widest lens conveniently nearby: the Phase One XF with a 45mm lens. I surged back into the rapid developing fray.
The colors had shifted to the really long wavelengths; red was just soaking the clouds.
These were not our usual clouds; it has been a good six months of both unusual weather and unusual clouds. This kind of high, fractured and cloud-specked sky is not something I’ve seen much of—and I’d been commenting on how odd the clouds looked all day. Whatever changes there are in the weather patterns these days, they change is striking here in the Pacific Northwest.