Sunset over Johnson Lake

[Blue_In_AK]

[regnaD kciN]

1. And you say there are no photo opportunities up there right now...!

Great, subtle sun (-rise? -set?) image. I really like how you framed the sun's reflection in the water-plants.

[JeffR]

2. One of your best sunsets, IMO

Beautiful!

[Callalily]

3. Stunning! n/t

[NV Whino]

4. Wow, Blue!

One of your best!

[Mz Pip]

5. Stunning

The colors are just amazing, particularly the greens in the lake. It has an other worldly quality to it.

[TahitiNut]

6. 8:51 pm on July 29th ... does the sun really set that early?

I thought there was only about 2 hours of twilight (instead of "night") this time of year.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. It didn't really go "down" until about 10:23

which is when I took my last sunset picture that night. This time of year the sun is low on the horizon for quite a while, which makes for long sunsets. Had there not been the gathering cloud cover, it would have been more "daylight" looking in this particular shot, and I probably wouldn't have been able to take into the sun like this. We were up the next morning at 4:00 for our fishing trip down the river, and it was still pretty dark. By the time we got on the boat at 5:00 it was just starting to lighten up some, but with the clouds, it still looked pretty dark. Officially, daylight is 5:36 a.m. to 10:35 p.m. now. We've lost quite a bit of daylight since June 22.

The angle of the sun is always kind of strange here. In the winter it rises in the South-Southeast, travels low on the horizon for a very short time and then sets in the South-Southwest. In the summer, it rises in the North-Northeast, kind of makes a big circle southward and then back north again and sets in the North-Northwest. The sun is not directly overheard except closer to the spring and fall equinoxes.

[livvy]

8. So how long did it take you to arrange those water lilies so perfectly?

Very pretty pic!