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[–] tyler@programming.dev 36 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

Definitely not, Colorado sunsets are wild. Here’s one from a few weeks ago, photo is literally blown out the colors are so wild, it looked much crazier in person.

And this happens all the time.

Edit: the hdr didn’t come through on some of these, like the second to last was SO MUCH MORE COLOR than that photo shows.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

All the Southwest is like this.

Totally amazing sunset.....in the Wal-Mart parking lot.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, exactly. And look where you took those beautiful photos.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah the meme is incredibly accurate. But it also makes sense because aerosols above cities make the sky redder for sunsets. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-smog-creates-beautiful-sunsets/

For example this one is out in the mountains and the sunset isn’t nearly as orange or red.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 3 points 8 hours ago

Yeah it's the opposite, the photos never show the true craziness of the real thing . And sunrises are even more intense . I saw some crazy shit on the school bus on the way to school back in the day .

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting how orange it is, here in my city in Australia I feel we get really vibrant pink skies.