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Yesterday I drove up to hoodooland and spent a few hours walking around, looking for something new. It was very windy and the sky was mostly overcast, so eventually I decided just to head back home. On these kinds of days, you never know about how the sunset will turn out. Just a bit of clearing in the far west as the sun goes down can make a spectacular sunset, but more often than not, it just gets grayer as darkness comes in. After a few moments of consideration, I decided not to wait around. Sure enough, as I was driving back the western sky opened up just a crack along the horizon. I quickly took the Ah-shi-sle-pah turnoff and parked, hurriedly grabbing my camera and tripod and climbing down into the wash. As the sky began to glow, I attached my camera to the tripod and -- Yikes!! -- the mounting plate that goes on the camera wasn't there. I had removed it a few days ago and forgot to reattach it. So the tripod was useless. It was too dark for handheld work, so I looked around and found a big flat rock nearby. I took this shot with the camera resting on that rock.

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, taken with an NIKON D800E 01/18 2017 The picture taken with 35.0mm, f/8.0s, 1/4s, ISO 100