The conditions looked right for another beautiful sunset over the Sangre de Cristo Mountain range of Colorado, so I loaded up my camera and headed out to the overlook. I arrived with about 20 minutes to wait, and decided it wasn’t going to be that spectacular afterall. So I turned the wheel and headed further into the mountains, hoping to find some wildlife in good light.
As I rolled past the south face of Pikes Peak, I spotted this magnificent lenticular cloud to the north. Much to my surprise, the cloud was illuminated with all the color that any cloud in the actual sunset might have received.
So I raced around to the north side of the mine where I knew I would get a good view of the mountains to the north, illuminated by this beautiful cloud pattern. I set my camera to manual with a reasonable shutter speed of about a 90th of a second, and then fiddled with the aperture to display the most vivid colors in my electronic viewfinder (EVF)
I have uploaded a number of these beautiful images to the sunset gallery of my website, so please click the link if you would like to see / purchase a print or gift item!
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Steven W. Krull is a renowned photographer and author who has been photographing and writing of the beauty and wildlife of the Colorado Rocky Mountains for over two decades. Please visit his website at S.W. Krull Imaging to view his work, including thousands of prints for sale, stock images for commercial use, and his library of published books.
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