It seems like I’ve been catching sunsets at just the right time lately. When I was still inside the lobby area at the Jackson Walmart, I saw the world was glowing orange,
When I got outside, I was impressed with the clouds and the way the wet parking lot shined. (You can click on the photos to make them larger.)
Look to the southwest
While I was taking a few shots, a kid who was collecting shopping carts said, “If you think that’s something, cross over the lane and look to your southwest.”
Holy camel in a canoe!
The kid wasn’t fibbing. The sky was boiling like something from an apocalyptic movie. It was somewhere between scary and awesome.
It was another good example of why you shoot it when you see it, because the clouds moved on a few minutes later, and they never got better.
Interesting, but not spectacular
The Jackson sunset was much more spectacular than one I had shot a few days earlier coming out of another store in Cape. These clouds were curious-looking, but not nearly as mind-blowing as the ones from the Walmart parking lot.
Just for the record, I don’t shoot sunrises.
Great story, Ken! Great photos! Even the one from Cape — clouds that look a bit like an orange peel. Interesting!
Amazing!
The missus and I always try to take photos of Nature with our phones, and it’s disappointing 95 percent of the time…
Thanks
One hint that might make your nature pix more interesting: diddle with the exposure. The sunset photos of the parking lot were pretty ho-hum until I reduced the exposure by about two stops. That got rid of a lot of distacting elements at the bottom and emphasized the sky. The boiling shot was improved slightly by cutting back the exposure, but that’s pretty much the way it looked.