Day 13...Cotton Candy Sky

COTTON CANDY SKY

Tonight, the Universe handed me this!  Oh, yes, the beautiful sky that I love so much.  I am always intrigued at how fleeting these moments are.  You could sit for 10 minutes catching the sun going down, and if you just shoot every minute or so, you will surely have a different shot every time with the movement of the clouds and the sinking of the sun.

In this particular scene, I love how there are shades of pink at the top and the middle section is like a gold explosion and trailing on the left is the hint of the midnight to come.  Of course, with the added bonus of a silouhette of trees, it's truly beautiful.  It never ceases to amaze me how the sky always looks like someones out there flinging a paint brush around.  

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Day 9...A Silhouette

A SILHOUETTE

I think silhouettes are always appealing.  Not 100% sure about the composition of this one, but it was the best I could get today.  This was actually taken from the window of my bus on my ride home today.

I actually ventured out to try to FIND something to take a photo of, and it was kind of a dreery day, and everything looked crappy and cold and colorless and blah.  So I figured I would just wait until later and maybe venture out for another evening of lights.  Then...there it was...right in front of me.  I was lucky enough to catch this shot out the window as the bus flew past.

I like this one because I wasn't really looking for it.  It just popped in front of my face and said, "HELLO!"  It is, of course, the beautiful St. Paul Cathedral.

I feel pretty happy to combine two of my favorite types of photos, Golden Hour and silhouettes, which I guess kind of go hand in hand often.

I did actually venture out this evening to try to get a glimpse (and possibly a photo) of the Aurora Borealis.  I drove far, far north of my home to where it was pretty dark and turned off onto a side road where there would be no city lights.  And then the fog hit.  So no luck on that tonight.  Oh, well.  I think I'm pretty satisfied with this shot.

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