[Part 1 of 5] A long and brilliant sunset show—even by already-lofty Oklahoma standards—began a couple minutes before this, then blossomed into a long peak phase. What made this stage remarkable wasn’t just the great coloration, nor even the serendipitously wild fan shape off the central source that evoked an explosion of light, but also, depth of the texturing. From the ground, orange cirrus and cirrocumulus opaquely superimposed a patchy, even higher, shadowy cloud field. It rendered a marvelous 3-D depth effect in real time, as if stacking a sandwich of variable light and color in the sky above, and even does so within a 2-D photograph. As with all SkyPix photo-story pages, click the image to enlarge! The show would go on, and on… [Go to Part 2]
Norman, OK (4 Jan 22) Looking SW
35.1816, -97.4405