Friday Shoot-Out: Sunsets

The idea of the My Town Shoot-Out is to post photos of your local community every Friday. This week's assignment was given to us by Sherri, from Florida.

All of these pictures were taken in Oregon by my husband John.

It's hard to capture sunsets and sunrises in the part of the Willamette Valley where we live because there are mountains both to the east and the west, obscuring the pink and orange that is surely there.


But if you hike high up into the Cascades, you're just that much closer to the moon. John took this picture a bit east of us, in low light, with shadows creeping up the side of the mountain in front of us. The setting sun was not visible except for the golden light it cast.



Better yet, go farther east to capture a real sunset. Although our annual forest fires are something we dread, they do produce the most amazing sunsets. This one, enhanced by the smoke of a forest fire in Wallawa County, Oregon, was taken from the back yard of Barking Mad Farm B&B. These photos have not been altered to change or increase their color: it's all about the smoke in the air!

The same vivid sunset, colors changing as the seconds ticked by. It was like watching a movie.