Fiery sunset above Hallgarter Zange in the Taunus Mountains right after a spring hailstorm cleared the air. Believe it or not, the colours were just like that. No strings attached. April 12th 2006
Comments
[ Post a Comment ]| Vid Pogachnik | Beautiful! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Congratulations for this one! | | Posted Apr 12, 2006 7:43 pm |
 | | Gangolf Haub | Re: Beautiful! | | 
Hasn't voted | Thanks Vid! I'm really happy that I own a SLR-Camera again. This shot would have been impossible to get with either of my digicams. For once, it's a 300mm zoom shot, but more important, no bit of foolish electronics tried to decide what's best for me or the photo. I took about 50 shots at different shutter speeds and apertures but only two or three were really satisfactory, this being one of them.
On the other hand I missed the actual sundown thanks to a pheasant, which distracted me long enough... And I didn't even get a decent shot of it! | | Posted Apr 13, 2006 4:59 am |
| | Vid Pogachnik | Re: Beautiful! | |
Voted 10/10 | Ha, ha, interesteng :-)
'pheasant'? ''a decent shot of it'? | | Posted Apr 13, 2006 6:04 pm |
| | Gangolf Haub | Re: Beautiful! | |
Hasn't voted | Ha! It took me a while to understand the joke in my comment. Well - you don't go shooting pheasants when there are couples around walking their dogs. I guess everybody (including the pheasant) was just so glad to be able to get outside after that hailstorm.
We had quite some freak weather last night. A colleague of mine drove home along a motorway when in a small dell they had 1km of 10cm snow - nothing before, nothing after. Cars went into a spin and he took three hours to get home instead of one... | | Posted Apr 13, 2006 6:37 pm |
| Andinistaloco | Yowza! | | 
Voted 10/10 | That's a great shot. | | Posted Apr 12, 2006 10:42 pm |
| | Gangolf Haub | Re: Yowza! | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks! Does anybody really say yowza! anymore? I thought that saying became extinct sometime back in the late seventies. But now that you said it I guess I'll have to grab Frank Zappa's Sheik Yerbootie album just to listen to Dancing Fool... | | Posted Apr 13, 2006 5:03 am |
| | Andinistaloco | Re: Yowza! | |
Voted 10/10 | Yeah, I guess I'm dating myself, eh? I don't think I'd ever actually SAY it, but it's fun to type.
"I'm a dancing foooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool...."
| | Posted Apr 13, 2006 7:39 pm |
| | Gangolf Haub | Re: Spectacular! | |
Hasn't voted | Grazie Lorenzo! Not "as usual" though. Only very now and again I manage one like that. | | Posted Apr 13, 2006 3:53 pm |
| Mark Doiron | I Believe It! | | 
Voted 10/10 | I believe those colors! Here's a very similar image I took at Big Bend National Park. Thanks for sharing yours! | | Posted Apr 24, 2006 11:00 am |
| | Gangolf Haub | Re: I Believe It! | |
Hasn't voted | The difference, however, is that Big Bend is much farther to the south if I am not mistaken. In our latitude we rarely have these kinds of sunsets, at least not in April already. | | Posted Apr 24, 2006 4:37 pm |
| Kiefer Thomas | crimson sunset | | 
Voted 10/10 | WOW! Rare as these may be in Germany, they are a bit shy of common here in Colorado, but rarely this intense. And to think, no filters or special lenses. Great timing. The only time I've seen a sunset this intense of red is during a fire a few years back. Thanks for posting this shot.
BTW, I think you have some of the best photos of everyone on this site.
| | Posted Jul 23, 2006 8:20 pm |
| | Gangolf Haub | Re: crimson sunset | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks for the nice comments. However I'm sure you''ll find other SPers with better or more enjayable pictures. But to think that the winter smog of the Rhein Main area produces the same effects as Colorado wildfires is a bit scary. | | Posted Jul 25, 2006 1:53 pm |
| Nikos | Nice shot!! | | 
Voted 10/10 | The sun at his best... | | Posted Jan 12, 2007 9:28 pm |
| klwagar | Interesting | | 
Voted 10/10 | that you no longer use digital but back to SLR. Do you still do that? Wonderful photo. | | Posted Jul 10, 2007 12:33 pm |
| | Gangolf Haub | Re: Interesting | |
Hasn't voted | hehe, maybe I should have said DSLR - I definitely don't plan to go back to film again. | | Posted Jul 10, 2007 2:05 pm |
| | klwagar | Re: Interesting | |
Voted 10/10 | aha! I think I need to convert to the DSLR as well. Beautiful photos tho - your compositions are wonderful. | | Posted Jul 11, 2007 11:40 am |
| bongsunkee | BEAUTIFUL SHOT! | | 
Voted 10/10 | pleasure...... | | Posted Aug 12, 2007 7:41 am |
| icypeak | Breathtaking sunset! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Your photo gallery is a pleasure, you are a great photographer! Oh, meant to add something...Yowza! | | Posted Sep 1, 2007 5:42 am |
| Cyrill | Regards | | 
Voted 10/10 | Very nice photo! | | Posted Nov 7, 2007 9:33 am |
| | Gangolf Haub | Re: Regards | |
Hasn't voted | a typical central European sunset ;-) | | Posted Nov 9, 2007 9:26 am |
|  Rate This Image Current Score: 93.12%  Loading... To Vote Image Data 187722 Hits: 2700 Loading...
|
Colour Red (Album)
Sunsets and Sunrises (Album)
