Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunset
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Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunset

Yesterday I posted an image of a fellow trekker photographing the sunset from Laban Rata on Mount Kinabalu.

Below is the first of a series of four that I'll post over the remainder of the week of that sunset. I don't recall which lenses I carried on that trip but this is obviously a telephoto shot.

In this shot, the sun hangs just above the of the South Sea. About a quarter of the way up the frame you can make out the coast at Kota Kinabalu which is 37 miles (60 km) distant from where I was on Mount Kinabalu at Laban Rata.

I particularly like the way the haze from the humidity hanging over the lowland jungle is dispersing the red end of the light spectrum in this shot while the cloud-free upper atmosphere is turning lilac. The spectrum is almost separated like a rainbow, indeed on the right of the frame there's a hint of green in the upper bands of .

The sun approaches the horizon on the South China Sea. The coast at Kota Kinabalu near the bottom of the photo is about 40 miles (60 km) away. Laban Rata, Mount Kinabalu, 1989.
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