Bangalore Sunset – Fire Clouds in the Sky

01/01/2014 Indrani Ghose
67 Comments
India, Photography
“Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring,
one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad.
From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers
of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy
that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.”
– The Gardener, 1915
by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

A very old picture from my archives. It was taken with my Canon PowerShot A540. I remember the evening, when the clouds reached their peak of glory with their bright pink gold colors. I took a couple of shots then stood back to see the scene melt away.

Bangalore Sunset

Fire clouds in the sky pictures from my balcony

Fire clouds are formed when a column of moist air over a fire becomes intensely hot, it rushes up into the atmosphere where it cools and condenses into droplets. This creates fire clouds called pyrocumulus clouds. Unlike the fluffy white cumulus clouds that also are created by convection, fire clouds are grayish or brown because of the ash, smoke, and particulate matter that get swept into the updraft.

But these clouds are caused merely due to reflection of sun’s light. Know more: Why Moon is Red in Color.

The final moments of the day from my balcony.

Fire cloud in evening sky pictures

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman,
I shall feel that I have worked with God.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sunset Salarpuria Silverwoods

Taken on 12th April 2019.

Don’t forget beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies!
~Paulo Coelho

See more from my balcony: Spectacular view of Crepuscular rays

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