David Ward - Landscape Photography - Into The Light

If there is high thin cloud an extraordinary effect can sometimes happen in the desert around twenty minutes after sunset. The last rays of the sun are bounced off the cloud and flood incredible warm light onto the landscape below, the meter reading sometimes rises by a stop or more, but the whole effect lasts only a couple of minutes. I had set up my shot around half an hour before sunset and had wandered away from the camera as I was convinced that nothing was going to happen when suddenly the whole landscape lit up. A quick sprint back to the camera gave me just enough time to make two exposures before the light faded away.