I don’t eat a lot of full, hot dinners on storm-intercept days. Lunch is my main meal. That’s because in the 5-9 p.m. hour, in the warm season, I’m still in the field, either on a beautiful supercell spinning itself deep into the evening, or have navigated rearward of upscale growth in hopes of a photogenic sunset. On the Great Plains, the latter approach seldom disappoints! Here in west-central South Dakota, the trailing anvil canopy provided a nice dark backdrop to silhouette golden-edged scud riding the cool outflow winds, the scud itself silhouetting part of the sun. Deep zooming that part of the sky renders a sepia hue that intensifies when deliberately underexposing the shot enough to draw down solar glare and bring out the sun’s outline.
