Part II and part I linked.

It doesn’t happen very often that the sun sets under the cloud deck like this. It’s quite an impressive sight.
This image is straight out of camera (conversion from the RAW file), no post-processing (like saturation or anything) save for resizing and the border. It really was this colorful.

D700, ISO800, 1/90 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 50mm

Some time ago I wrote about how our balcony’s facing west and how we enjoy frequent sunsets.
Now that the ever present snow clouds accompanying the winter on its way out, we get to see those sunsets again. Today was especially colorful and I was too busy to get out and find a decent spot to make a good composition of it. But I think this picture tells enough.

D200, ISO100, 1/45 sec @ f/5.6, Sigma 10-20mm

More to follow, without any doubt.

what season it is, really…
Fall’s pretty much gone. Shame, because all the colors are gone. But better, because the rain’s pretty much gone with it. There’s your occasional shower, but when it gets colder, the sky turns blue. Like… seriously blue. The kind of blue that doesn’t need any Photoshop saturation anymore. One of the pictures I have up in my show (part IV from the Four Seasons, winter, obviously) has that kind of blue sky. It’s striking in an special way.
So these days I’ve been slowly turning to the sky for color and patterns.
(and it’s a great way to see if your camera’s sensor needs cleaning )

D200, ISO100, 1/350 sec @ f/5, Sigma 10-20mm

We’re lucky enough to have our balcony face west. So every night (provided the weather’s co-operating) we are witness of a sunset. And we’ve seen quite a lot of them, in all different sorts and colors.
Tonight was a version we haven’t seen before, though. Kind of weird clouds on one side, threatening, and then on the other side a clear sky, divided by… Well… yeah… Divided by what, really?

D200, ISO100, 1/30 sec @ f/4, Sigma 10-20mm

I’ve been having this idea…
It’s been playing around in my head already for… about 10 years, I guess…
I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do with it, but it must be something, since I can’t seem to let go of it.
I have a title for it (which I’m not going to put here), but the idea involves a combination of nature, people (industries) and how they influence each other.
This could be an example…

D200, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/16, Tamron 28-75mm