Saturday was municipal election day here in Victoria but we didn't head to the polls til after dinner. As we were driving home, the sun was starting to cast a luminous orange glow over everything.
Must be just a touch of smoke in the air? There was not a cloud in the sky (bummer, as they make for glorious sunsets), but I still grabbed the camera, and headed back out to capture the last few minutes of sunlight from the top of Mount Tolmie.
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| a pale orange glow spreading over the downtown |
The next two shots are taken seconds apart, but the latter one is just zoomed in on the sun, trying to capture the red glow around it.
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| the white sun casting a red glow |
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| Same view, captured through the yarrow plants |
But mere minutes later, as the sun settled into a slight bank of whispy cloud, the image seemed to reverse itself, so that the sky turned from red to black, and the sun from white to a storm of colour, as if it had drawn all of its power back inside itself.
Slight shifts in the clouds left the colours seeming to slide around like watercolours in a frame.
As the sun settled into the hills themselves, the close up shots brought the trees themselves into focus.
Good bye sun...... and hello moon!
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