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Red Sun #1

Red sun and clouds over North Wales caused by hurricane Ophelia in October 2017

The story behind this image

October 16th 2017 saw hurricane Ophelia batter the west coast of Ireland, and while here in North Wales we escaped relatively unscathed the hurricane did produce some amazing weather conditions.

One of the strangest was the red sun phenomena, caused by dust dragged up from the south by the wind, together with smoke particles from fires in Spain and Portugal.

This image, taken from a series of several hundred that I took for my Red Sun Timelapse #1 video, shows the sun with a partial covering of cloud, catching the vivid red light.

Image data

Filename - sun red 01.jpg

Camera - Canon 6D

Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 400mm

Exposure - 1/200sec @ f5.6, ISO100

Filters - None.

Location - North Wales

This image - 800x800px JPEG

Conversion - Adobe Lightroom

Comments - Single frame taken from a time lapse series.