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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.

Image copyright 2013 Jon Burch Photography

Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...