Natural Ephemerals: Sharp

One last funny little thing that happened for just a minute.

So, in remote-sensing terms, this was about the geometry not the radiometry. The sunshine's color was pretty enough, but what made it unusual is that it came through a very narrow slit on the western horizon. (A slit I somehow did not take or keep a picture of.) So the light was very horizontal and very sharp. The very opposite of the ring lights and reflective panels used to soften photos.

The usual reflector is the atmosphere; that twilight (secondary light) happens all day long, but you can see by the dark sky that it's not happening here. So it's a rarity, an untwilit sunset.

I do believe this is the only time I ever saw this.

Looks like a typo, doesn't it. First to last was four minutes. 2014-06-14-2034-48 through 2038-39, 44.4806 -103.8553. Robert Wellman Campbell, "Natural Ephemerals: Sharp," RSS Longa, 30 April 2026, public domain via CC0 1.0.