On the way to a punk festival in Slané I stopped near the village of Pchery, where I intended to take a few photographs of some new wind turbines. An orange band began to rise on the horizon and for a moment it looked as if the sun was coming back. After a couple of minutes the sky was suffused with colour and the light returned for a few moments.  I managed to take about twenty shots. Then the colours began to fade and the show slowly shifted to the other side of the Earth.
I went back to the same place the next evening. Even though the sky was not so awash with colour, it still wasn’t a wasted journey.

Three days later I discovered the following article on the iDnes server :

Alaskan Volcano Paints even the Czech Sunset Orange

The remarkably orange sunset visible in the sky above the Czech Republic recently has its origin 8,000 km away in Alaska. By all accounts it has been caused by the dust-cloud  from the August eruption of the Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutian Islands …

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