Stormstack: A Sky Too Orange to Believe
Photographer Aphyr was finishing dinner when a glance at the sky sent him sprinting to his van for a camera. Two hours of thunderstorms, with a tornado system pushing up from the southwest, had left the heavens churning with clouds that shifted between pale gold and a burning, vicious orange. For the next 45 minutes, he ran through Superior, weaving past scrap yards, bar parking lots, and the large granary complex on Dock Street, each shot leading to the next in an adrenaline-fueled rush at witnessing the storm move overhead at sunset.
The resulting photograph, titled "Stormstack," comes with a caveat about its color. Aphyr reports that he is unsure how to handle correction: the image is essentially a flat white-balance with saturation brought down, yet it still renders a little too orange. He insists the sky did look that way, stating it was unlike anything he’d ever seen—a rare, naturally vivid palette that defied even the calmest post-processing.
