Sometimes you just end up at the right place at the right time. This picture is one of the oldest ones in my portfolio, but it is also one of my favorites. Taken on a long summer’s evening (about 10:30 PM) several years ago, the farmer was trying to get in the last few minutes of work as the sun set behind the mountains.
It had been a summer of fire, hot and dry and smoky. Forest fires burned across the state and across the West. Somehow it only seemed fitting that the sky filled with fire-like colors as the sun dipped away for a few hours.