The wildfires still burning in Arizona are affecting (pleasantly) the sunsets here in Colorado - especially at the higher altitudes in Southern Colorado. This image is taken in Park County at approximately 6500 - 7000 feet looking north. We are probably catching a little bit of Colorado Springs/Denver air pollutants in the colors as well. It got really chilly as soon as the sun went down and the temperature dropped into the 40's. Even though this is not part of the extremely high altitude area of Colorado, it does have a bit of the "top of the world" feel to it, and this was a beautiful evening.
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the orange-purple-green is distracting to me.
i can understand some shadow in the distance, but the area of purple ground looks to be almost digitally processed into the picture. i have since looked up purple sunsets and found that they are becoming more common in areas with a large concentration of air pollution causing the red/yellow/orange waves to be filtered out more, where areas with high concentrations of salt in the air (oceans, etc) have more of the ultraviolet wavelengths filtered out.
revised score on this is getting a 6 from me (and an apology for the implication of digitally 'painting' or tone-shifting the colors).
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