Thursday, December 04, 2008

SkyWatch: SNP, Sunlight & Shadow



I captured this image one chilly November morning in SNP at the Spitler Knoll overlook. The sky was completely cloud covered at daybreak but as the morning wore on it began to clear from west to east. As the scattered rays of sunlight broke through they painted the mountains and valleys with beautiful patterns of sun and shadow.

As with all transient light the beautiful light show ended nearly as quickly as it had begun as the last of the storm clouds rolled away allowing the sun to evenly light the area.

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26 comments:

  1. A simply stunning photo! I love the layers of colour in the sky and the landscape.

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  2. Lovely capture of a moment time. Thanks for joining us in skywatching this week.

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  3. What a pretty landscape. I love all the purples.

    Sharon

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  4. The colors in your pic are outstanding, well done.

    Cheers!
    Regina In Pictures

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  5. Great depth here. Those mountains go on forever.

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  6. I love the hills behind hills, behind hills...just looks like you could walk right into the picture

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  7. It's a good feeling to see a sky of clouds breaking up, and watching the light and blue come in behind. I had a similar experience on a hike down the Grand Canyon, and yes, it changed our plan of attack on how much of the canyon we could do. It gave us that extra boost.

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  8. The layers of color are beautiful...what a lovely location to take a sky photo at.

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  9. A terrific shot Coy. I love those suttle shades of pinks and blues. It makes it look soft and beautiful.

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  10. What a lovely shot. I've never seen country quite like that before.

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  11. beautiful shot. so colorful.

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  12. beautiful. i love the colors, the depth, it's really beautiful.

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  13. A beautiful palette of colours painted across the sky.

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  14. This is lovely! I love that tree to the left too!

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  15. Such a beautiful view!
    Yours is the third blog this morning that I have added to my "Blogs I Love" list.
    My Skywatch post is Here Hope you can stop by.

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  16. Oh, what I wouldn't give to be there right about now instead of behind this desk and in front of this computer screen! Very nicely captured. The hues in this photo are amazing!

    I'm looking at the sky here.

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  17. Great capture Salty, love the colours.

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  18. Salty: What a neat capture of the wonderful morning sky.

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  19. What a glorious way to start the day. Beautiful.

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  20. Lovely calming landscape and adorable raccoons above.

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  21. I love the colours, and all the contrasting colours in this photo!
    Thanks for sharing!

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  22. Richard from atthewater blog, recomended your site. Glad he did. Very nice shots of a beautiful part of the country. Look forward to folloing you blog in the future.

    Craig

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Thanks again
Coy