WC 570 - sunset

I absolutely love the peaceful mood of this. And the birds make it really special

Gorgeous sunset, Rob. I love it when you can get a lining on the clouds.

Beautiful image, Rob. You caught lots of great detail, the backlit rim of the clouds, the crepuscular light above the cloud, the arc of birds and the scattered islands to add lots of interest in the foreground.

Wonderful sunset shot, Rob! That sky is amazing with the rich color, sunrays, birds, and that amazing rim lighting on the clouds. Great foreground too with the varying grass areas scattered throughout. Well done!

Great catch, expertly done. The top half of the image is spectacular, and the flying waterfowl add a lot of interest.

Beautiful scene! The sunset colors are beautiful. I love the backlit rim of the clouds and that one bird sitting all by himself in the foreground.

Thanks, everybody. This is probably my favorite sunset photograph that I have taken. It hangs in one of the exam rooms at work, so I can enjoy it every day :).

For those who are curious, the "islands" are patches of cattails, the structure is a concrete hunting blind, the bird a cormorant, the flying birds are geese, and the water is only a few inches deep. The distance to the far shoreline is ~3 miles, and the hills are a couple more miles beyond that.

Amazing sunset sky.. glorious actually
The backlit rim, the birds, the marsh setting, etc. - Excellent!

Really a beautiful shot Rob, the colors and comp capture the character of the scene quite well. It's been tough in this part of the country this past year with the drought. I visted Cheyenne Bottoms last August and found no water, in fact I don't think I saw any surface water on my whole route from northeast NM through OK and Kansas into NE. Not sure what you've experienced but up this way (southeast NE) with little or no water there has been little or no birds and wildlife.

John, Quivira NWR is ~30 miles south of here. It is finally filling up and reporting good numbers of birds. I haven't been out to the Bottoms for a while, but we have had little rain so the only big birds out there will be raptors. I doubt there is much surface water at all.

Besides the striking color of the sky, I really like the contrast between the largely diffuse sky and the the sharply delineated cloud edges.