Sunsets in Fort Bragg: In order to escape the constant smoke in the foothills, I spent last week in Fort Bragg California. For the most part this worked but there was a high layer of...

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

In order to escape the constant smoke in the foothills, I spent last week in Fort Bragg California. For the most part this worked but there was a high layer of smoke on a couple of days and a fair amount of fog. This smoke did make for a couple of interesting sunsets which this series of images chronicle. I'll be posting other images in the coming days of the area around Fort Bragg. All questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.

sun starting to enter a lower layer of fog and smoke. The dark area is the ocean.

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Hint of green on the top of the sun.

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Image is showing more atmospheric distortion.

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more distortion as the sun sets

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Different sunset this time the atmosphere was more turbulent.

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sun distorted into a square shape.

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Very distorted sun
Very distorted sun...

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Another sunset. This time with more high smoke in the sky and a thick layer of fog just above the horizon.

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As the sun got lower, the smoke and fog acted like a filter but the turbulence was low allowing sunspots to be seen.

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The bottom of the sun was eclipsed by the low layer of fog. A bird happened to fly through the sun on this shot.

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Tomfl101 Loc: Mount Airy, MD

Cool sun shots. It’s a shame you weren’t lucky enough to have a boat or some other object in the foreground to offer scale and additional interest.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Ballard wrote:

In order to escape the constant smoke in the foothills, I spent last week in Fort Bragg California. For the most part this worked but there was a high layer of smoke on a couple of days and a fair amount of fog. This smoke did make for a couple of interesting sunsets which this series of images chronicle. I'll be posting other images in the coming days of the area around Fort Bragg. All questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.

I enjoyed these images.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Tomfl101 wrote:

Cool sun shots. It’s a shame you weren’t lucky enough to have a boat or some other object in the foreground to offer scale and additional interest.

Hi Tomfl101
Thanks for checking out the sunset images and for the comment. There is a small buoy in the wider angle shot (8th image), but in the other shots taken at 1000mm it is hard to find many objects in the right location other than the occasional bird that will fly by.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Longshadow wrote:

Hi Longshadow
Thanks for viewing the sunset images and for the Thumbs up.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

photophile wrote:

I enjoyed these images.

Hi photophile
Thanks for viewing the sunset photos and for the comment, I'm glad that you liked them.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Ballard wrote:

In order to escape the constant smoke in the foothills, I spent last week in Fort Bragg California. For the most part this worked but there was a high layer of smoke on a couple of days and a fair amount of fog. This smoke did make for a couple of interesting sunsets which this series of images chronicle. I'll be posting other images in the coming days of the area around Fort Bragg. All questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.

Great atmospheric shots ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

joecichjr wrote:

Great atmospheric shots ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Hi joecichjr
Thanks for checking out the sunset images and for the comment.

kpsk_sony

Was there steam once it finally dropped into the ocean? Nice variety

tcthome Loc: NJ

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

kpsk_sony wrote:

Was there steam once it finally dropped into the ocean? Nice variety

Hi kpsk_sony
Thanks for viewing the sunset images and for the comment. I didn't notice much steam but there was a lot of Fog around while I was there. As the weather changes from day to day the sunsets can vary a lot.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

tcthome wrote:

Hi tcthome
Thanks for checking out the sunset images and for the Thumbs up.

khildy Loc: Brownsburg, IN

Ballard wrote:

In order to escape the constant smoke in the foothills, I spent last week in Fort Bragg California. For the most part this worked but there was a high layer of smoke on a couple of days and a fair amount of fog. This smoke did make for a couple of interesting sunsets which this series of images chronicle. I'll be posting other images in the coming days of the area around Fort Bragg. All questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

khildy wrote:

Hi khildy
Thanks for checking out the sunset images from Fort Bragg and for the Thumbs up.