While driving up the Pali on Chain of Craters Road, after hiking around the coastal petroglyphs, a magical patch of the post-sunset sky popped into my peripheral vision, as if a thumbnail previewing a broadcast from a dreamscape. Beauty like this compels stopping and appreciation…and shooting! So many of my favorite skies are unplanned and opportunistic like that. From about a thousand feet up the escarpment, the indigo tropical Pacific of twilight transitioned through a band of soft, shallow cumulus, to lingering and quite distant, sunset-flamed cirrus, arrayed in bands paralleling the placid Pacific surface. Fortunately a safe pullout was nearly at hand, and I could capture this window of lighting magic in its fleeting moment.
10 SE Volcano HI (21 Sep 25) Looking SW
19.3141, -155.1524