Bronco Sunset
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Bronco Sunset
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture
Description
Looks like another Bronco sunset along the Front Range in northern Colorado. As the sun sets nearer and near to the horizon, light is scattered more and more as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. The more of the atmosphere the light travels through, the more the scattering. Shorter wavelength blue light is scattered out first, followed finally by the red wavelengths. Remember the mnemonic, ROY G BIV? It stands for the colors of the visible spectrum or rainbow of colors - from shortest to longest wavelengths. Red is on the long end and blue on the short of the spectrum. That's why Colorado has Bronco colored sunsets, I'm told.
The Colorado Front Range is a colloquial geographic term for the most populous region of the state of Colorado in the United States. The area is located just east of the foothills of the Front Range, aligned in a north-south configuration on the western edge of the Great Plains, where they meet the Rockies. Geologically, the region lies mostly within the Colorado Piedmont, in the valley of the South Platte and Arkansas rivers on the east side of the Rockies.
The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming. It is the first mountain range encountered moving west along the 40th parallel north across the Great Plains of North America. The Front Range runs north-south between Casper, Wyoming and Pueblo, Colorado and rises nearly 10,000 feet above the Great Plains. Longs Peak, Mount Evans, and Pikes Peak are its most prominent peaks, visible from the Interstate 25 corridor. The area is a popular destination for mountain biking, hiking, climbing, and camping during the warmer months and for skiing and snowboarding during winter. Millions of years ago the present-day Front Range was home to ancient mountain ranges, deserts, beaches, and even oceans.
The name "Front Range" is also applied to the Front Range Urban Corridor, the populated region of Colorado and Wyoming just east of the mountain range and extending from Cheyenne, Wyoming south to Pueblo, Colorado. This urban corridor benefits from the weather-moderating effect of the mountains along the Front Range, which help block prevailing storms.
It was along this corridor, just south of the Colorado - Wyoming state line near the town of Carr, Colorado that this image was made. The light was changing rapidly and this is my pick of several. I was braced against the car as I didn't have time to set up a tripod. The shutter speed was 1/100 of a second at f/4 with an ISO of 125 and the lens was zoomed to its maximum. Copyright 2013 Jon Burch Photography
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March 11th, 2013
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