The clock, the bastard just never stops ticking when I need it to. Hard to start walking back across the dunes and to the truck. I never took my eye off that cloud as I went. I got back to “the” dunes and the color took one last leap into gorgeous.
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With calls of hurry up floating across the landscape, I looked one last time to see this. There was no way of knowing 45min earlier that we’d even have a single cloud let alone this magnificent one. The wind storm off in the west kicking up a huge dust storm put enough particles in the sky for the killer color. What you see here is what I saw. Other than the camera set to Vivid, the processing was simply holding down the Shift Key and letting ACR do its stuff.
How many amazing photos go uncaptured because time is not invested? How many images go untreasured because the wrong guess is made that nothing will develop? There is nothing I hate more then to see a great sunset in the rear view mirror. Because of that lesson, seeing that great sunset behind me, putting in the time just comes naturally now. The rewards even if I don’t get the click are too great not to put in the time. In this case, I do have the click to share. I was very lucky, again!
Photo captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film