To watch a sunset
is to connect
with the Divine.
...Gina De Gorna
Sunsets do look even more vividly orange when wildfire smoke fills the skyline. Sunsets feature longer wavelengths which is why reds and oranges reach your eye.
Wildfire smoke only accentuates that effect and sadly, there was a fire in Big Sur, 240 miles away.
With wildfires, the smoke puts a lot of extra particles up in the atmosphere. The extra particles are very small and they make reds and oranges pop by diffusing the other colors on the shorter wavelengths.
The red scatters over even more of those particles and you get amazing red or orange sunsets during wildfires.
An outstanding shot! The colours and your composition (and pov...I think you are on a hill) are stunning. But, as haskar says, the Earth cries out for help! (Fav for this photo!)
