Harris Beach State Park, 2012 Brookings, Oregon 2021

In 2018 there were massive forest fires in Central Oregon. On my trip to the Oregon Coast I stayed at Harris Beach State Park in Brookings, Oregon. Ash was being carried from Central Oregon to the Oregon Coast. I went down to the beach and realized that the smokey sky was not going to give me any color in the sky. I positioned my camera at a point where the sun would set behind a volcanic sea stack hoping for a sun burst.

In 2021 there were forest fires in Central California and Northern California. We did not have ash falling at Harris Beach but it did influence the color of the sky and sun. A crowd gathered to see the orange globe in the sky set.