Sunset on the River
by Alicia

Comment by Paul:
Looks like a distant nuclear detonation! Very well seen and captured.

Sunset on the River
by Alicia

Comment by dahlin:
Even the surrounding clouds bring interest and focus to the big massive cloud

Fire on the North Rim
by Alicia

Comment by manish:
Magnificent looks almost like a composite of two separate images. The color pallet on the bottom half is so dramatically different form the top

Sunset on the River
by Alicia

Comment by manish:
Its a wonderful take. The colors on clouds and the tree silhouette make it s stunner

Fire on the North Rim
by Alicia

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
This smoke cloud is very similar to what we see here in S Florida when they burn sugarcane fields just before they harvest them. They burn on days when the air is still, so that they can control the fire, and the cloud of smoke rises so high that it condenses the vapor in the smoke when it gets into the cooler higher atmosphere.
This image is quite striking with the deep reds of the canyon and blue of the sky around the cloud of smoke.

Sunset on the River
by Alicia

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
I love it when the air gets very still late in the evening, and you can hear distant thunder from the clouds like this. Nicely presented. The reflections make the shot for me.

Fire on the North Rim
by Alicia

Comment by Jutilda:
Those clouds are just spectacular!!!

Short Lifeline
by Alicia

Comment by Germaine:
Good processing. Wonderfully creepy.

Fire on the North Rim
by Alicia

Comment by tanguera:
Spectacular.

Sunset on the River
by Alicia

Comment by tanguera:
Holy cow. Simply breathtaking. That is all.