Sunset 08/02/06

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1. Kevin Q says:
   August 2, 2006 at 9:53 pm

   Wow…

   K
2. JimW says:
   August 2, 2006 at 10:00 pm

   Ooooooh…
3. Jude says:
   August 2, 2006 at 10:08 pm

   Being a cynical optimist, when I see a sunset like this, I think–pollution. My reaction dates from a visit to Mexico where the best sunsets I’d ever seen were caused by natural gas burnoffs near Poza Rica. Oh, well.
4. John Scalzi says:
   August 2, 2006 at 10:23 pm

   Nah, it’s just haze from mosture in the air and clouds under the horizon.
5. Joe Rybicki says:
   August 2, 2006 at 10:37 pm

   …unless the cows in Indiana have gotten REALLY flatulent lately…
6. Malcolm says:
   August 2, 2006 at 10:37 pm

   Did you Photoshop this at all? Or are you able to command the sun to perform on cue like that?
7. John Scalzi says:
   August 2, 2006 at 10:44 pm

   Malcolm:

   I did run it through Photoshop, but that’s because the camera didn’t quite capture what it really looked like (this is a problem with digital cameras in low light situations). What’s here is pretty close to what it actually looked like to my eye.

   As for commanding the sun, well, sure, I can command it. Whether it listens, of course, is another thing entirely
8. Jason Erik Lundberg says:
   August 2, 2006 at 10:53 pm

   Whoa. Dude, I just had a Keanu moment.
9. Karl Cook says:
   August 2, 2006 at 11:43 pm

   Exxxxcellent! Nice shot, Scalzi.
10. Madeline F says:
    August 3, 2006 at 12:29 am

    Oh, hell, man, what camera do you have, again? I have a 5 megapixel Konica KD-500Z and I still get bands when photographing graded blue skies like that…
11. John Scalzi says:
    August 3, 2006 at 12:47 am

    I get some granularity in my camera (I have a Nikon D70s); I solved it in this case by doing a gaussian blur on the top half of the picture.
12. Chang says:
    August 3, 2006 at 6:25 am

    Me likey pretty sunset. Make brain happy. Pretty light from sky gods.
13. Douglas says:
    August 3, 2006 at 9:48 am

    My atheist HS Physics teacher used to call these “Rays of God Light”. Then he’d launch in to why they were actually parallel but appeared not to be.

    Nice timing.
14. Anne C. says:
    August 3, 2006 at 10:18 am

    “I want every man to say ‘Oooooooh!’ or I’ll know the reason why!”
    “Ooooooooh!”
    “Not yet!”
    [/obscure movie reference]
15. Gary Boyd says:
    August 3, 2006 at 8:26 pm

    That’s gotta be the nicest clear sky sunset I have seen in a long time. Nice work…
16. Jessie says:
    December 21, 2006 at 3:33 am

    Wow that looks soooooooo amazing it looks fake.
    mwah mwah LUV IT!!!!!!!!!!

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