Oregon Crepuscular Sunset
by Nick Kloepping
Title
Oregon Crepuscular Sunset
Artist
Nick Kloepping
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photo Art
Description
A Willamette Valley, Oregon sunset, creating sun rays converging on the horizon. Crepuscular rays occur when objects such as mountain peaks or clouds partially shadow the sun's rays. The name crepuscular means "relating to twilight" and these rays are observed at sunrise and sunset. Crepuscular rays appear to diverge outward from the setting sun, and are visible only when the atmosphere contains enough haze or dust particles so that sunlight in unshadowed areas can be scattered toward the observer.
The light rays are actually parallel, but appear to converge to the sun due to "perspective", the same visual effect that makes parallel railroad tracks appear to converge in the distance. Crepuscular rays are often red or yellow in appearance because blue light from the sun is selectively scattered out of the beam by air molecules.
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August 24th, 2014
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Comments (18)
Vixen Evony
Gorgeous sunset! l/f
Nick Kloepping replied:
Thank you Vixen, for the kind comment. I am glad to have been able to capture one of nature's moments.
Diane Schuster
My gosh but this is stunning! WOW! l/f
Nick Kloepping replied:
Thank you Diane for the l/f and comment. I like your area of the great State of Oregon.
Lorenzo Williams
An awe inspiring image. Thanks for the description, ironically my wife and daughters were telling me (less than a week ago) that sun rays were not parallel, now I can prove them wrong. Would love to know your digital processing. f/l/fb
Nick Kloepping replied:
I appreciate the comment, Lorenzo. The rays were natural to the photo and were not created through processing. The only processing was done in Photofiltre 7 for adjustment of clarity and 10 % revived colors. I have several other photos taken the same evening, that I will be posting later.
Robert Brown
Beautiful capture of the sky and clouds.
Nick Kloepping replied:
Thank you kindly, it had been stormy to the East and I just happened to walk out the back door at the right time.
Dawn Currie
Congratulations on your feature in our group, I Love Nature Photography - celebrating the best of our natural world