Ten minutes – that’s how much time elapsed from yesterday’s image of a golden sun and this one of purple clouds.  I had been jumping in and out of my tree cover until the rain finally stopped and the sun began to sink below the horizon.  As it did so, the sky turned from a golden glow to deeper blue with beautiful purple light reflecting off the clouds.

Knowing that I had a small window of opportunity for capturing a sunstar, I adjusted the composition and closed the lens aperture to its smallest.  As the sun began to disappear behind houses across the harbor, I shot frame after frame hoping that the houses would block just enough light to allow for a sunstar to form.  As it happened the sunstar showed and did so at the peak of sunset’s color with beautiful purple clouds adding to this scene from Parker Lane.