last nights sunset

much to everyone's dismay I didn't get tonights sunset. Actually I didn't even notice tonight's sunset, but I did get last night's. I took it from Rocky Mountain National Park. I was leaving the park after getting a series of shots from Sprague Lake, one of which is shown in yesterday's blog entry. I had just left the Beaver Meadows entrance when these incredible colors just appeared in the west, my mom was with me and noticed it, she swung the vehicle around and I jumped out with camera and tripod to get a some shots. The lighting didn't last very long either, amazing too because if I was driving no one would probably have noticed the sunset. Since I was on the road by the entrance to the park it was hard to avoid any obvious man made objects, so I kept the foreground out of it entirely and left the high peaks of the park as just a small section on the bottom of the photo. I wish I was still at Sprague Lake when the lighting occured, but there was no way of predicting it. I left when the sky and ground was very flat and looking too cold, no sun was shining and it was windy and cold. I can't complain too much though as the photo above shows, I got one of those rare fleeting moments of time. One of those moments that makes a photo special and separates it from just a regular picture.