Yesterdays Sunset

[JimFox]

I was heading down the I-15 south from Salt Lake City. I had dropped off my Nikon Z6 II at Spencer's Camera to get it Astro modified.

I was enjoying the snow covered mountains to the East as I was driving south, but lamenting the fact that in that Salt Lake City area it feels like they have built on every square foot of ground between the I-15 and the mountains. But further south, the mountains get a bit sparser, but civilization gets sparser too.

Watching the clouds overhead that are starting to fade a bit I was hoping they would hang in there until sunset. So as I saw the sun getting pretty low to the West, I took the next exit from the freeway, and found a dirt road that angled to the SW nicely. As the clouds started to turn color I found some nice ranching remnants and a few lesser used roads I could use in the ground layer. This is one of the roads.

iPhone 17 Pro

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

SLC was pretty much built out between the foothills and the freeway when I lived there and hasn't slowed down in the almost 30 years since I left. You can likely bet on the notion that some developer has already eyeballed where you shot this from

Great colors in the clouds. I used to see some spectacular sunsets from up near the University Med Canter when I worked up there.

 

[John Holbrook]

Gorgeous image Jim, great iPhone capture.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

The cloud is the main show and the ground provides a nice anchor for this scene.

 

[JimFox]

SLC was pretty much built out between the foothills and the freeway when I lived there and hasn't slowed down in the almost 30 years since I left. You can likely bet on the notion that some developer has already eyeballed where you shot this from

Great colors in the clouds. I used to see some spectacular sunsets from up near the University Med Canter when I worked up there.

Thanks Alan. Yeah, it's crazy the amount of people crammed into that area. It's too bad the government there or citizens didn't have the foresight to save some open space from development before it was all gone.

 

[JimFox]

Gorgeous image Jim, great iPhone capture.

Thanks John! I am pretty happy with how this turned out. Now hopefully I can process the images of this scene off my regular camera to look this good.

 

[JimFox]

The cloud is the main show and the ground provides a nice anchor for this scene.

Thanks Jameel. The cloud was huge and quite tall, so when I jumped off the freeway, I had the option to drive closer to those mountains, but decided not too as it would have put me too far under the cloud and I would lose it's shape. So I think the balance between distance to the mountain while keepin the cloud small enough to be in the frame ended up working out.

 

[AlanLichty]

Thanks Alan. Yeah, it's crazy the amount of people crammed into that area. It's too bad the government there or citizens didn't have the foresight to save some open space from development before it was all gone.

You'd have to live there for a while to understand the local mindset on development - there can never be enough of it. Open space is wasted space.