There were clouds along the western sky this morning, and the tops of them reflected the tail end of the sunrise while the Belt of Venus glowed the cloud cover. The combination produced a pink glow that was much more intense than you’d see from just the Belt of Venus itself.
I am ridiculously happy that I saw this and that I had the chance to stop the car, dig out my camera, and get a photo. Not a great photo, but it’s a photo.
Morning Belt of Venus and Reflected Sunrise
I like the pattern the steam makes in this image. It was about 10F, and it’s supposed to be just as cold tomorrow morning, too. As I was warming up my car and scraping the windows, before leaving for work, one of my neighbors came out of his apartment, jumped in his car, started it, and immediately drove off. Without letting it warm up, and without scraping the windows! Poor car!
This isn’t technically a great photo, obviously, but the view this morning from the staff lounge was pretty wonderful. The full moon is in the twilight arch (the shadow of the Earth cast on the atmosphere by the sun rising in the opposite direction), below the Belt of Venus (the reflection of the sunrise in the opposite direction). This was morning, so it was the western sky.
The last one has faint crepuscular rays.
A nasty storm moved through this evening, including a tornado touching down to the west of us. Lots of wind, lots of rain, and lots of lightning. After it was over, I went outside to get photos of the wonderful orange glow in the northern sky. As I turned to go back inside, I saw the double rainbow.
I’ve never really used Picnik PicMonkey (an on-line photo editing utility), but a couple of the effects are kind of fun, so I’ve been playing around with it. This is yesterday’s rainbow, the Very Long Barn, and Beck Chapel & Dunn Cemetery, all edited in PicMonkey with the Orton-izer. I’ve tried an Orton action for Photoshop and wasn’t too impressed with the results. PicMonkey seems to do a better job of it.
I thought it was fading, but the next time I looked out the window, it had brightened.
red paper boat 