The Conflagration Of 2020

For a compilation of the morning walk images, click here.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020. 8:45 am

Wednesday morning's air quality was particularly bad, and like most Bay Area residents, we woke to what felt like a never-ending morning, the skies dawning dark and later brightening to an unearthly glow. I would have described it as Nuclear Winter. Just the same, there was enough light to make photos, although I boosted the ISO rating to 6400. The red-tinted sky contributed to these unearthly vistas. One friend joked that it look like we "woke up on Mars".

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 8:39 am.

Instead of my normal Cloudy White Balance preset, I made this photo using the Auto Preset. It appears to have "neutralized" the incandescent lights within the sweet shop while "cooling down" the reddish ambient light. One still gets the warming effect of the morning sky, while rendering the coloration in the shop closer to what our mind's eye might expect.