Originally posted by PenPusher Nice shot dave but may I enquire if that was Ophelia's orange sky syndrome or just a normal sunset.
I've just checked the dates and it looks like it was the night before Ophelia, so it's possible that there was already Saharan dust in the air causing a more intense sky than we usually get. Sunset here is rarely more than a delicate pink, except for a handful of exceptional evenings now and then, and I never artificially boost the saturation as a point of principle. If you search for Dartmoor on Flickr you'll see thousands of photos of blazing red skies, and 99.9% of them are fake. Drives me mad when I was out on the moor myself at the same time and I KNOW that the sky wasn't really anything like that.
End of rant (I know you weren't suggesting that I'd boosted the saturation. I always over-react about that subject because I detest the amount of fakery that goes on in modern digital photography).
Ophelia was very mild here compared to what you got in Ireland. I hope you and yours came through it all unscathed.