Flares Of A Mad Orange Sunset
by Tami Quigley
Title
Flares Of A Mad Orange Sunset
Artist
Tami Quigley
Medium
Photograph - Photography ~ Digitally Enhanced
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“Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom....”
~ Jack Kerouac
~ 1922-1969
Sunflares spark an abstract beauty around a mad orange sunset on July 5, 2021 along the Ironton Rail Trail, which loops more than nine miles through Whitehall Township, the Borough of Coplay and North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania.
Looking more like the moon than the sun and shining with a wild beauty, the sun holds court in a hazy, milky sky.
The orange haze in the evening sky is likely the result of wildlife smoke in southern Canada affecting conditions very high in the atmosphere.
The Ironton Railroad was a shortline railroad in Lehigh County. Originally built in 1861 to haul iron ore and limestone to blast furnaces along the Lehigh River, traffic later shifted to carrying Portland Cement when local iron mining declined in the early 20th century. Much of the railroad had already been abandoned when it became part of Conrail in 1976, and the last of its trackage was removed in 1984.
In 1996, Whitehall Township purchased 9.2 miles of the right-of-way from Conrail, transforming it into the Ironton Rail Trail.
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Tami Quigley
Many thanks Nina Prommer for the feature in ART ~ It Is Good For You, much appreciated!
Neli Stoyanova
Congratulations on being featured on the home page of the FAA Group “Everything Sunset.” I am proud to display and promote your talents. Please post your featured image in the group's discussion thread so it remains available for viewing in the group.