When little or no color decorates your sunset scene overhead or across much of the sky, but some clouds reside above the horizon, have patience and despair not. As long as a slot of uninhibited light trajectory exists on or even beyond the farthest view, those clouds sitting just off the horizon may light up late, blazed with brilliance for just a couple of minutes. Those can yield marvelous scenes like this to occupy much of the postage-stamp subset of sky available to extended zoom lenses. Streaks and ribbons of cirrus lit up wondrously, their golden-orange tones further warmed with distance by the atmosphere’s property of preferentially filtering blues. That same filtering property renders even the unclouded sky less blue near the horizon, as in the slate tone that brushes this view above the cirrus belt.
Norman OK (15 Dec 18) Looking SW
35.1936, -97.3729