SUNSET AFTER THE HURRICANE IAN
Beauteous sunset on Friday after the Hurricane Ian.
ISO 100, f/8, 0.4 second
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The same hurricane that devastated communities and shattered lives also intensified and recolored the sunset’s palette.
Mother Nature is a supreme artist creating one masterpiece after another. She occasionally throws tantrums, rips the canvasses, discards the brushes, and storms away, huffing and puffing. When enraged, she furiously scowls at human hubris. Once her foul mood blows over, she restarts her oeuvre.
“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity;
The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea.”
Wordsworth
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity;
The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea.”
Wordsworth
Hurricane Ian laid waste to SW Florida and for days soaked the rest of it. Sunsets have been beauteous!
Air molecules scatter and redirect sunlight that is made of colors of varying wavelengths. This scattering of the light results in sunset colors.
Hurricanes like Ian cause wretched downpours that pressure wash all the fine particulate matter and other pollutants. Free of the competition air molecules have a field day and easily scatter different wavelengths.
It so happens that small air molecules are about the size of the wavelength of the violet light. Hence scattering is more pronounced for the violets and blues than reds and oranges. Post storm purer air molecules scatter violet light three to four times more effectively than it does the other colors with longer wavelengths. This phenomenon produces sunsets with prominent purple hues.
These images are from last Friday. The last image of the series shows the strongest purple hues.
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