Sunday, 23rd November 2008
Storm Clouds at Sunset
by Casey Chinn
I caught this scene as I was driving home one evening. The setting sun was lighting up the bottoms of gathering storm clouds with a beautiful orange light, and the moon hung in the sky above.
Equipment: Canon 5D 70-200mm lens
Casey Chinn
Professional studio photographer in Colorado Springs, CO. I manage to get outside once in a while and shoot for myself.
Website: caseychinnphotography.net
Storm Clouds at Sunset by Casey Chinn was photo of the day on Sunday, 23rd November 2008. It is tagged Clouds, Moon, Weather. You can leave a comment below.
19 Comments
James and Kelly Stone
Wow, lucky you to have such fantastic sunsets with so much color, and then to have captured it with the moon. Great job!!! Excellent composition and exposure. Congratulations on a nice POTD!
Chris
Wow! What a sky! This was so beautiful that it inspired me to check out your website, which was truly FANTASTIC!!!!!! I especially love the slot canyon photos. Your use of light is spectacular. Thanks for sharing.
Katherine Lee Strassburg
Amazing photo. It’s unusual to be able to see the blue sky and moon with such a threatening storm cloud moving in. Marvelous colors in the turbulence. This would be good on one of the weather calendars!
Kirk Jordan
I bet that put a little fear and jubilation in your ride. (out an airplane I assume?)
Malta Photography
Nice shot overall.
Pauline Jones
I see a lot of sky photos but not all as good as this one.
Su
Awesome shot.
Loic
Congratulations! A beautiful one!
planet lover
Very, very intriguing! Storms in some areas do have a way of sneaking up on you. I imagine it is like that in Colorado.
Marie Dunphy Harding
The setting sun & the moon above, fantastic!
The colors are wonderful.
Kevin Browning
Love it!
Casey
Thanks for all the great comments on my first photo published on Earthshots. I’ll clarify the details of the shot. I live on the front range of the rockies where the mountains and plains meet. In the summer, afternoon storms brew over the mountains and move out over the plains where they sometimes grow to unbelievable heights. I was on a hilltop looking southeast over the plains and the setting sun was behind me. I didn’t have any great foreground elements to use so I just concentrated on the sky. I had been shooting the sky for a while and it just kept getting better and better as the sun set behind me and started to light up the bottom of the clouds with orange light. I caught a few shots before it covered up the moon.
Laurie
Truly awesome! I love it!
Thanks for the additional info.
Anurag
Very unusual, almost looks like two different shots stacked one upon the other.
Congratulations.
Sue Gagnon
WOWIE, very cool shot that appears to be taken almost from the clouds. Neat-o!
Renee
Excellent colors! Congrats!
Su
This is a beautiful shot, love the moonlight.
Renee
Those clouds are simply amazing!
mike
Great sky colors. The Moon in the background also.