radio dangerousmeta!

  Tuesday, January 29, 2002

just got back from the p.o. - tried to hurry, but it was rush hour. we just had another of those completely-unphotographable gorgeous sunsets. the digital just hasn't got the range to pick it up. tried with the f4; we'll see how they come out.

we've had slab clouds for the last two days, but to the west is the edge. the sun dropped below the edge, turning the entire sangre de cristo mountain range to red-orange. then, as the sun dropped further, multiple layers of clouds were revealed in a huge palette of shades ... particularly picking out the bottom haze layer that's laying over the jemez and sandia mountain ranges like fog. shot orange/yellow light through them. in the distance, the blue sky was ameliorated into a yellowish sea-green. purples, lavenders, blues, oranges, reds ... sparks and filigrees of yellow. the mountains subdued into a modeled set of purples, with rills of snow for contrast.

only the naked eye, or possibly a brush and canvas, could ever capture tonight. watching the last vestiges now.

i wish i could give this kind of experience as a gift to every critically-ill person who won't live out the night, to everyone heartsick and depressed, to everyone who needs a lift.

it's a quality of natural beauty rarely seen in a person's lifetime ... and santa fe is the only place i've ever experienced it. sunset from na pali on kauai was close; but it had a different sort of grandeur. but this ... this is part of the earth, not some performance across an ocean expanse.
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had some spare minutes, and decided to run a couple of sxsw finalists through the w3c validator. try it yourself; it's educational.
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the anti-bloggies are coming soon. get yer category suggestions in now.
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a couple of skinned knuckles, and i've got a new refrigerator. bliss.
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