Smokey Sunrise in Paradise

Sunrise this morning in Paradise Valley MT, with air quality in the “unhealthy for sensitive groups” range due to smoke from the multitude of wildfires to the west. A 2 shot pano. (R5, 100-500 @ 135, 1/160 s, f/16, iso 400, tripod)

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The wildfires are too bad, but it does do very interesting things to the sun.

I hate wildfire smoke lol, but you gotta love the way it transforms the light and the sun! Not sure there’s much else to say here… =)

Mark,

The conditions most certainly make for a very surreal image. I agree that I don’t care for what the conditions represent - the awful fires… but then we are so attracted to colors that we still can find beauty - well, beauty on the surface anyway, ugly underneath… but we all get that.

Only small nit if I were to mention, would be the fence posts in the LLC. Not enough included in the frame to contribute, so I would be inclined to clone out - even though they’re pretty insignificant to the over image and message.

Lon