Orange and Black
by Nick Boren
Title
Orange and Black
Artist
Nick Boren
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Photograph - Nikon Photography
Description
A sunset view out my back door.
From Wikipedia:
Sunset colors are typically more brilliant than sunrise colors, because the evening air contains more particles than morning air.[10][11][13][16] Sometimes just before sunrise or after sunset a green flash can be seen.[17]
Ash from volcanic eruptions, trapped within the troposphere, tends to mute sunset and sunrise colors, while volcanic ejecta that is instead lofted into the stratosphere (as thin clouds of tiny sulfuric acid droplets), can yield beautiful post-sunset colors called afterglows and pre-sunrise glows. A number of eruptions, including those of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 and Krakatoa in 1883, have produced sufficiently high stratus clouds containing sulfuric acid to yield remarkable sunset afterglows (and pre-sunrise glows) around the world. The high altitude clouds serve to reflect strongly reddened sunlight still striking the stratosphere after sunset, down to the surface.
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January 19th, 2024
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I'ina Van Lawick
How lovely to have this view in the evening. It closes the day so perfectly and profoundly. Great image, Nick. The camera lens certainly help us see so much more as we focus through it and then edit our work. All those wonderful large and small discoveries what is really there, and then we still have not seen all of it. LF
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