Gone in a matter of minutes

Working as a photographer requires me to always see things in many different levels. I see things that may be mundane and boring, but I look at it and wonder what if I came back in the spring or use a sidelight or even in black and white. Another thing I constantly do, is look behind me.

Light fades quickly. During the day, you don't notice it until you realize, hey, it's night time. But when you watch the light all day, every day, you see how fleeting it is.

Saturday, I was putzing around waiting for a movie to get out and I headed over to a hardware store. As I got out, I was looking East and noticed the orange glow on some of the buildings. Seeing this, I turned around to see a very dramatic sunset in the making. What I saw was broken blue gray clouds up high. Several plumes of steam rising up from a factory. As the sun dropped, there was a thin line of open sky that the sun was shining through. Because of where I was at, it was backlighting the steam plumes and turning the bottom of the clouds orange. The plumes were also creating a "V" of a shadow across the sky. Knowing that there were only minutes, I tried to find an area that didn't have obstructions. Of course, after about two, maybe four, minutes, the scene had changed significantly. The "V" shadow was gone, the backlight was gone and the orange glow was all but disappearing.

This was all that was left and it is SOOO insignificant in comparison.