Not much of an event as far as New Mexico sunrises go. I've definitely seen better.
Times as noted in the file names. All images shot with the 28-135mm zoom lens, reduced to 40% and slightly cropped. The first three images were shot at ISO 400; bottom pic at ISO 200.
This is waaay too danged early... if you'll excuse me, Gentle Reader, I hear my bed calling.
Added 0740 hrs: Power lines marching off to town. I played with the color curves in this shot; it ain't as it came out of the camera. Click for larger.
Buck, clean skies = boreing sunrises and sunsets!! Back in the middle 70's when I took a lot of pictures of sunsets and sunrises there was a lot of Sulfure dioxide in the air, an electrical generating station up in the Farmington area spewed the stuff out and it worked its way into the Rio Grande valley and south. I got a lot of great sunsets and sunrises (I have always been a morning person) from those slightly dirty skies. I hear they but scrubbers on those stacks and the air is much cleaner.
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Very nice photos! Are you upside down again?
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I thought the NM skies were dirty from woodburning stoves.
It's lovely, Buck, just plain lovely. The only time I really see the sunrise is when I'm on vacation... :-(
ReplyDeleteLooks like a beautiful sunrise. What were you doing up so early?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful morning!
ReplyDelete...I like the one with the birdies! (2nd)
Lou, that's a different kind of "pollution" that stays close to the ground and once it cools off disappears altogether (the ash component which is what you see as smoke simply falls to the ground). The stuff out of the power plants is higher altitude stuff which is why it affects sunrise and sunsets so dramatically.
ReplyDeleteI put pollution in scare quotes above because of the transitory nature of effluent of small fires (stoves, fireplaces and the like). A few years ago as a Township Supervisor here in PA (it’s like a City Councilman or County Commissioner, the majority of towns in PA being very small and managed by 3 or 5 member Boards) I worked to repeal a law that allowed the burning of household waste in property owner backyards. They even specified a “burn barrel” for the sole purpose of burning trash. In the process I did a lot of study on the subject of small fires and the public health risks posed by them. It seems by evolution or a quirk of nature modern man is immune to the output of burning wood except for concentrations of CO and the depletion of oxygen. Not true when you burn trash in fact some items when burned off-gas stuff that the EPA has a Zero exposure rating (bleached white paper for instance). It is the temperature of the burn, the lower the temperature the worse. Something to keep in the back of your mind, fire is a good thing, the hotter the better!!
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Jimmy: I hear ya about sunsets and pollutants. Some of the MOST brilliant sunsets I ever saw were when I was a teen-ager in LA in the early '60s. Smog, inversion layers, and stagnant air make for brilliant sunsets on the ocean. And I mean frickin' BRILLIANT golds, purples, reds, and everything in between.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the lesson on burning. I had a burn barrel when I lived in OK... everyone did. I don't think there WAS a garbage service where I lived.
Jim: I see the sunrise only rarely, myownself.
Lou: I'm not upside down in the sense I stayed up all night and watched the sun rise. But I did do the "sleep in shifts" thing last evening (i.e., 2000 - 2400, 0200 - 0500), and that isn't good, either. I'm off on the wrong foot again, what with having gone back to bed at 0830 and only gotten up about an hour ago.
Daphne: See above! :D
Ann: Those were a couple of hawks and they kept distracting me from the task at hand, LOL!