civilized ku # 2266-74 ~ light show

Reflection ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Main St. left ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Main St. right ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Au Sable River ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Main St. bridge ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Main St. left #2 ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Main St. right #2 ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Holywood theater ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Hollywood theater ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenSunday evening, about 8:15PM, the view from my front porch told me some weather was coming. It looked like rain was its way.

Ever hopeful, re: my rain series, I headed over to Main Street with the idea that some rain pictures would be in order. However, it never rained. Instead, what I was treated to was a rather amazing light show.

Arriving on Main Street, I made a couple pictures of some storm clouds as they appeared above the street scene. I then ventured to the Main Street bridge and pictured the start of the sunset on the river. By the time I moved across the street, warm light was starting to spread across the clouds. Then, it was back to my first location and the clouds had started to turn rather dramatic and downright menacing.

It was this point that I returned home to get a tripod because I knew the roiling near apocalyptic clouds above the Hollywood (looking east) were too bright to picture with just a simple 3-stop auto ISO bracket. The exposure difference between the clouds and the theater entrance was just to great for a 3 stop on/over/under bracket to handle.

The last picture with the pinkish magenta color in the clouds was my last exposure.

All together, the picturing sequence - except for the reflection picture, presented in chronological order - took place in no more than 20 minutes. It seemed as though every time I turned around the light and clouds had changed, not subtly but rather dramatically. The viewing sensation had a slightly surreal feeling, kinda like being in a strange / unfamiliar time and place.

I'll readily admit, in this case, to 'chasing the light' all over the place - what a visual and sensory treat.

Comments

[Svein-Frode]

...and they said you couldn't make pretty pictures :) Nice catch! Usually the most spectacular light is in between rainstorms, ironically.