06/17/13 Summer Sunset

A photogenic sunset on this evening southeast of Kewanee, IL 

On June 17th,  I was home in Kewanee, IL and spent the evening doing some photography. Some photo-ops presented themselves as some towering cumulus (TCU) was building near sunset. It never mounted to any convection in this area, but it did help to provide a few decent photos throughout the late-evening. I've added a handful of photos from the evening below:

Building towering cumulus (TCU)...

(Canon 28-135mm zoom-lens)

A pretty cool shot here with marginal instability just before sunset...

(Canon 70-300mm telephoto zoom-lens)

A wide-angle shot of some towering cumulus (looking north)...

(Canon 28-135mm zoom-lens)

Instability beginning to wane with the loss of surface heating...

Some nice shades of red were featured in the western horizon

at sunset!

Another nice shot...

My favorite shot on this particular evening with the red glow

 (background) and the lighthouse (foreground)...

One wide-angle shot as I call it an evening...

I made back to Peoria, IL on June 23rd to photograph some severe convection. I'll update with a post regarding that day in the coming days. Stay tuned.