When I visited the Grand Canyon, I set up my tripod so I could take a timelapse of the sunset. I figured it would be amazing in that setting.
And… it was just like the first picture. Mild, delicate colors, nothing like what I was hoping for. Though if you like watching the shadows grow and move over the canyon, it’s still good for that.
I suppose the hidden bonus was that by having my phone sitting on the tripod for hours, it meant I spent that time enjoying the scenery and talking to fellow travelers, which was cool.
Not American – can someone explain the state of Colorado to me? It looks like your own little Switzerland
Definitely not little, it’s actually the 8th-largest state of the USA, and larger than many countries (it’s a little smaller than Italy). It’s a weird one, because the West and East side are totally different: mountainous on the West side, flat in the East. The population lives mostly on the border between the two side, is very highly educated, mostly liberal for the USA, and is absolutely obsessed with the outdoors.
The mountain side boasts some of the most gorgeous landscapes on Earth. The orogeny that led to their creation was rapid, unusual (in that it was mid-craton and not on the edge), and recent, so that they are jagged and rough and wild. If you’d like to get an idea, just look up “San Juan mountains” in your image search engine of choice.
I feel like you know more about my home than I do, thanks for the educational write up
You are very welcome and thank you! It used to be my home, too, and I absolutely love love love it. One day, I’ll be back and the remaining 23 14ers will be very afraid!
Less chocolate. More weed. Otherwise accurate.
Yes I can confirm that it’s true, I made this observation last week when I had a view of a gorgeous sunset behind something simple as a Walmart parking lot! The skies are always beautiful here though, so you could say the same about any business here tbf. I love this place.
Magic can appear in the most mundane of places if you look for it.
Try their jalapeno cheese dip and you’ll meet the gods. Then tell us that place is mundane.
Edit: I’m assuming whoever took this pic was going in for that dip.
The difference? Photoshop.
Definitely not, Colorado sunsets are wild. Here’s one from a few weeks ago, photo is literally blown out the colors are so wild, it looked much crazier in person.
And this happens all the time.
Edit: the hdr didn’t come through on some of these, like the second to last was SO MUCH MORE COLOR than that photo shows.
Can confirm, I used to live there and the spectacular views just stepping outside are what I miss.
Hmmmm I love when the land turns into a crisp silhouette like that
Niceee
Yes, exactly. And look where you took those beautiful photos.
Interesting how orange it is, here in my city in Australia I feel we get really vibrant pink skies.
Yeah it’s the opposite, the photos never show the true craziness of the real thing . And sunrises are even more intense . I saw some crazy shit on the school bus on the way to school back in the day .
All the Southwest is like this.
Totally amazing sunset…in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
Na, I live here. It just be like this
This happens all over the Southwest, it really depends on patchiness of cloud cover. Amazing sunsets don’t care if you’re in the parking lot of Wal-Mart or out somewhere with trees.
