Fires

Stepped outside a few minutes ago and took a photo of the sun. It is red from the forest fires burning nearby. It has been hot and the smoke has rolled in the past few days. It can and probably will get a lot worse. The moisture seems to be getting sucked out of the earth.

Giant sunspots can be seen on the sun. The photo was taken with a 200mm lens. I have cropped a great deal of the photo as the sun took up a small part of the frame.

It is the smoke acting as a filter that makes this photo possible, but it also shrouds the detail.

Still the sunspots are big. Every bit as big as the one that erupted in early May that caused those magnificent auroras.

The moon will come up shortly when the sun dips and could be as red rising in the east. These colourful cosmic bodies could be a harbinger of doom, yet in their own right, hold an otherworldly elegance. Nature’s reminder that we aren’t in charge nor ever will be.

7 thoughts on “Fires”

  1. Jim R's avatar

    Jim R

    What a nice colorful sun. I should take a look with my filtered camera. We had a dense fog bank roll in this morning. It didn’t make the sun red. Now it seems to be lifting.

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  2. mountaincoward's avatar

    mountaincoward

    What a superb photo – and how amazingly red! Almost unbelievable!

    We can’t really imagine any kind of forest or landfires over here this year – it literally has rained all year! It’s still raining too. I’m sure we won’t get a summer now – too late really…

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    1. underswansea's avatar

      underswansea

      Hello Julia. Good to hear from you. The smoke hasn’t been as bad the last few days. One of the kids from work that I took hiking a week ago is from Auckland. A very nice young man. I hope all is well.

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