Last Night's Sunset

[AlanLichty]

I saw some nice cloud breaks forming yesterday evening and decided to see what kind of sunset might be in store. Turned out to be a fantastic one but not until after I started seeing tiny droplets of rain on my controller screen. I did grab some shots while I could and then beat a path back home so I could get my drone out of the air before it started raining harder. Thee colors went nuclear after I was back inside but I have no useful view from the ground and can't fly in the rain. I did score this 3 shot panorama of the early color show over Vancouver Lake. Click through for a more detailed view.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice sunset and its reflection in the lake adds a lot of interest. Is that Lake Vancouver?

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice sunset and its reflection in the lake adds a lot of interest. Is that Lake Vancouver?

Thanks Jameel - I will be getting some good sun angles over Vancouver Lake from now until about Jan 22 and will be watching carefully for more opportunities to get more like this. The colors about 10 minutes later were incredible but the showers visible on the right hand side of the scene closed my window for shooting.

 

[Beth]

nice pano! the roads look pretty wet. beautiful reflection of the sky and sun on the lake.

 

[AlanLichty]

nice pano! the roads look pretty wet. beautiful reflection of the sky and sun on the lake.

Thanks - I like wet roads much better than icy ones and that's one of the reasons we moved here from Utah 25 years ago

 

[Ben Egbert]

That really is nice too bad you missed the wild color show

 

[AlanLichty]

That really is nice too bad you missed the wild color show

Thanks Ben - at least I did get this sequence out of the evening show. I strongly suspect there will be more sunsets to shoot

 

[BlackRockArt]

I saw some nice cloud breaks forming yesterday evening and decided to see what kind of sunset might be in store. Turned out to be a fantastic one but not until after I started seeing tiny droplets of rain on my controller screen. I did grab some shots while I could and then beat a path back home so I could get my drone out of the air before it started raining harder. Thee colors went nuclear after I was back inside but I have no useful view from the ground and can't fly in the rain. I did score this 3 shot panorama of the early color show over Vancouver Lake. Click through for a more detailed view.

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C&C always welcome.

Alan, beautiful shot.

Also, the drone is OK to fly in the rain, it's the controller suspectible to the element.

Oliver

 

[Bob Israel]

Very nice Alan! It's a great composition and I love how the sun reflects in the lake.

 

[AlanLichty]

Very nice Alan! It's a great composition and I love how the sun reflects in the lake.

Thanks Bob - I saw the sun angle for this shot last summer looking at the Photographers Ephemeris. From now until mid January I can get sunsets over the lake.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Alan, what a really cool sunset!

 

[AlanLichty]

Hey Alan, what a really cool sunset!

Thanks Jim - I like the notion that shots like this can be captured on very short notice