I usually try to spend every day in just a'settin in my rocking chair watch'n the sun set on another summer's day - when the sunset is visible. The summer of 2023 was not a vintage year for sunsets. Pretty ones were few and far between. I think there were two factors that may've worked against photographable sunsets. The first was that it was a pretty dry summer, so that by the time the sun was setting, there the sky was usually cloudless. The second factor was that between the smoke from Canada burning, the heat and the ozone, the sun often disappeared behind a smuggy layer of smoke and ozone before it ever reached the distant hills.
The photo above and directly below are actually looking east at sunset, away from the setting sun. You getz what photos you can.
The photos below are now looking to the west, to the sunset. The first one is towards the southwest, the trailing edge of a little thunder storm.
The one below, we're looking a bit to the north west for probably the most dramatic photo of an actual sunset this summer.
The photo below was taken on a threatening evening when everything was very orange. It was taken on the same evening as the second photo above, this time looking west.
And finally a very mellow sunset, just a step up from the bog standard sunsets of 2023. Not a lot of clouds, but the air was free enough from smoke for the sun to set behind the hills and clouds over Minnesota.
Oh well, there's always next year. Maybe. I'm at that age where you have to always add "maybe" when talking about next year. Just standard procedure.
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