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Sepia Sky on the Great Plains

2024-11-21 By Roger Edwards

Sepia Sky on the Great Plains

I don’t eat a lot of full, hot dinners on storm-intercept days.  Lunch is my main meal.  That’s because in the 5-9 p.m. hour, in the warm season, I’m still in the field, either on a beautiful supercell spinning itself deep into the evening, or have navigated rearward of upscale growth in hopes of a photogenic sunset.  On the Great Plains, the latter approach seldom disappoints!  Here in west-central South Dakota, the trailing anvil canopy provided a nice dark backdrop to silhouette golden-edged scud riding the cool outflow winds, the scud itself silhouetting part of the sun.  Deep zooming that part of the sky renders a sepia hue that intensifies when deliberately underexposing the shot enough to draw down solar glare and bring out the sun’s outline.  Momentarily, orange rays would light up scud under the upper cloud deck.

1 S Murdo SD (10 Jun 24) Looking NW
43.8652, -100.7062

Filed Under: Sunsets and Sunrises, Visual Effects Tagged With: clouds, convection, fractocumulus, Great Plains, Murdo, outflow, scud, South Dakota, sunsets, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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