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 horizon of the South China 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 yellow.
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