A few evenings ago Leah called me to the sliding glass door to look at the sky. Everything was red. Here is a view towards the west.
Here is the eastern view.
The tree in the left foreground is lit because I intentionally let my little point-and-shoot camera use its flash setting. If I turned the flash off, it gave the sky so much exposure that the color washed out. This is actually close to what it looked like to our eyes.
The setting sun was hidden behind the mountain. It must have been spectacular.
These times are quite fantastic – I’ve seen just a few in the last 20 years. I have four photos I took of conditions on the ground and sky when we had a remarkably red evening last year. They’re amazing – everything is red and pink, except for the vegetation which is a stark bright green.
I think it must be due to some perfectly oriented cloud cover, just the right distance from the ground, where the setting sunlight bounces back and forth through that corridor from the west until the only color that survives is red. (Must still be enough green to see the plants as green but except for there it isn’t otherwise visible to my eyes.)
Wayne — In this case, the haze/mist/fog in the east was definitely too low to be illuminated directly by the sun, so the only source of illumination was the sky and the clouds. The sky was pretty dark and the clouds were red-red-red.
Beautiful sunset colors you have there.
Robin Andrea — Yes, but sometimes I wish we could actually see the sunset from our deck.