Dusk Collectors

Gathered light from the setting sun reflects from the surface of two distant storm cells in this view of the southeast sky as seen from the new Bowman Meadows housing development site south of Boyson Road and west of Alburnett Road in Marion, Iowa. Capture time for this image was 8:11 PM, Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The left cell, rising to about 35,000 feet, was about 120 miles away from the camera's eye while the right cell, topping at around 45,000 feet, was about 100 miles away. Both were located northeast of Galesburg, Illinois. The area in front of the left cell was at this moment severe thunderstorm-warned. Weak thundershowers had moved through the Cedar Rapids/Marion area about three hours previous, producing some brief rain and high wind gusts. Sunset on this day was at 8:20 PM.