Climate Change Sunset
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on December 6, 2015 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
Click photo for larger image
| |
Camera Used: Panasonic DMC-TZ60
Exposure Time: 10/60
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 400
Date Taken: 2015:12:06 23:57:34
|
|
| More images
Details:
Eastern ZImbabwe is currently experiencing another intense heatwave and has received only minimal rainfall so far this summer. This is due in part to the strong El Nino which has developed and possibly the rising global average temperatures caused by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This evening I was taking photographs of another glorious sunset in almost clear skies at a time of day in December when it should be raining. Just after the sun had set, dense clouds of smoke from yet another bush fire started to billow over hills to the north-west of Mutare. In addition lingering aerosols from the eruption of Calbuco Volcano last April produced another volcanic twilight arch which developed spectacular crepuscular rays caused by the setting sun shining through distant cumulus clouds to the west of Zimbabwe. I decided to call the resulting images Climate Change Sunset because they not only capture the effect on it of two potential climate change producing agents (smoke from bush fires and aerosols from volcanic eruptions) but were also taken when our local climate is not behaving normally. The photographs were taken between 18.29 and 18.37 LT using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 compact camera in intelligent auto mode.
Photographer's website:
No URL provided.
|
|
|
