Tutti Frutti – Sunset, Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 04:33PM
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William Van Doren, TUTTI FRUTTI. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on Arches, 17 x 23.

We had a very unusual and amazing combination of a full blazing sunset surrounded by lightning and thunderstorms. Here’s an iPhone snapshot, below, for comparison. iPhone, like many cameras, exaggerates or oversimplifies the contrasts in sky photos, but this gives some idea of what I was looking at.

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