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Challenge: Sunset or Sunrise II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenge Photos
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 35-350mm f/3.5-5.6L USM
Location: Black Mountain - Southern Colorado
Date: Jun 19, 2014
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jun 24, 2014

[Jun. 26th, 2014 04:50:06 PM]

The wildfires still burning in Arizona are affecting (pleasantly) the sunsets here in Colorado - especially at the higher altitudes in Southern Colorado. This image is taken in Park County at approximately 6500 - 7000 feet looking north. We are probably catching a little bit of Colorado Springs/Denver air pollutants in the colors as well. It got really chilly as soon as the sun went down and the temperature dropped into the 40's. Even though this is not part of the extremely high altitude area of Colorado, it does have a bit of the "top of the world" feel to it, and this was a beautiful evening.

Statistics
Place: 28 out of 96
Avg (all users): 5.9901
Avg (commenters): 6.8000
Avg (participants): 5.8085
Avg (non-participants): 6.1481
Views since voting: 430
Views during voting: 195
Votes: 101
Comments: 8
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AuthorThread
 07/03/2014 04:03:57 PM
not the typical , sun, clouds, and a bit of land/sea

on the contrary

a lot of a beautiful landscape with terrific warm light and some clouds

really great shot
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 07/02/2014 03:19:57 AM
The warm oranges and cool purples really blended well in this one.
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 07/02/2014 12:12:24 AM
Lovely image, Patsy. And those purple mountains' majesty are beautiful.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/01/2014 08:28:13 PM
Such a nice blanket of warm light.
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 06/27/2014 02:04:20 PM
Great colors, but the foreground is just distracting.
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 06/26/2014 04:31:04 PM
Beautiful scene , can't wait to find out where this is
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 06/26/2014 03:54:29 PM
the orange-purple-green is distracting to me.
i can understand some shadow in the distance, but the area of purple ground looks to be almost digitally processed into the picture.
i have since looked up purple sunsets and found that they are becoming more common in areas with a large concentration of air pollution causing the red/yellow/orange waves to be filtered out more, where areas with high concentrations of salt in the air (oceans, etc) have more of the ultraviolet wavelengths filtered out.
revised score on this is getting a 6 from me (and an apology for the implication of digitally 'painting' or tone-shifting the colors).
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 06/25/2014 09:03:18 AM
What a landscape! =)
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