Red Skies at Night by CoreyBlack

Photography • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on May 12, 2010

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We get some pretty amazing skies here in the American Midwest. The only other part of the country I've seen them as intense is southern Florida. Down there you're at sea level which feels like you're down at the bottom of a giant bowl with the massive sky towering over you into infinity. Up here in Chicago we're about 800 feet above sea level which gives you a totally different perspective. The sky seems closer, like you could reach out and touch it some days. This adds an extra dimension of intimacy, especially when it's doing something interesting. I made this shot off the third floor back porch of my apartment at sunset the day before my birthday last winter. For some reason it's making me think of cherry Jello with those weird bits of mandarin oranges mixed in into it. I have no idea why as I don't actually like Jello. This picture was made in the Albany Park area of Chicago on December 17, 2009.

Comments (15)

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Osper

8:26PM | Wed, 12 May 2010

Excellent! Great capture!

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KatesFriend

8:58PM | Wed, 12 May 2010

Capricorn eh? So is my sister. It is magnificent. The structures look so small an anonymous in silhouette. Overwhelmed by the sun's powers. And ruby and purple light are always hypnotic to my mind.

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bmac62

9:34PM | Wed, 12 May 2010

Like your perspective. I haven't thought much about sky closeness due to elevation above sea level. But now you've peaked my interest. I have some troubles getting great sunrises and sundowns here in Kansas because the eastern part of the state has continuous rolling hills that restrict long range vistas. Both Florida and the Chicago area are much flatter (billiard table-like) and you can see further along the horizontal plain... I like your blood-red sky above. Very eye-catching. Hmmmmmm, ok, now to think some more about sunrises and sunsets:)

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beachzz

10:23PM | Wed, 12 May 2010

A sailor's delight!! Beautiful shot, I don't think I've ever seen a sky like that!!

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Chipka

10:47PM | Wed, 12 May 2010

I love these twilight periods--and it sucks that a movie/book/pop-culture combo now bears the Twilight title; it ruins the true mystique of the very real and very beautiful periods of the day...but hey, if something needs to be ruined, leave it to Hollywood to do so, with "pretty" people no less! Anyway, enough rambling. It's late and I have to get up for work early, so I'll just say that I love this image. It's brooding and quite passionate in terms of color and the interplay between color and shadow. There's light here, but it doesn't strike me as light so much as simply color, and that's quite interesting; this reminds me of a painting, or of any other sort of way of turning reality into something more interesting. I love the fact that this image is about color and shadow and form rather than shapes and proportions and being "true to life." This is more true to the what life aspires to and I really dig that!

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auntietk

1:02AM | Thu, 13 May 2010

What gorgeous colors! This area isn't much for sunrises and sunsets, I'm sorry to say. Yours are MUCH more interesting! When the sun goes down in Seattle, it just gets dark. Very little spectacular-ness occurs in the in-between times.

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jmb007

6:53AM | Thu, 13 May 2010

superbe photo!!

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yons

9:00AM | Thu, 13 May 2010

You have achieved what nature accomplishes here with bush fires. The same intense reds, orange and yellows. The dark foreground captures the whole impact.

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