Wild Wildfire Skies

No, I was not using a special filter to capture these images. It was the actual look of the skies on the evening of Monday, September 4, 2017 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Smoke from wildfires raging 1,200 miles distant and more in the state of Montana and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan tinted the skies over Iowa with a surreal yellowish-orange color. These two images were captured from the grounds at Noelridge Christian Church, with the above image looking northeast at 5:01 pm CDT, and the image below southeast at 5:05 pm. Despite the great distances of the fires, local respiratory advisories from meteorologists were issued for residents in Iowa. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.

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