smoke and fire

 
The smoke from the Arizona fire is blanketing Albuquerque, making for some very strange and interesting lighting. My eyes were burning and dripping tears as I took this photo (above).

 Earlier in the day, the sun was just a dot of light. My eyes saw it as fluorescent pink. The camera saw it as yellow-orange in this image (below).

In this image, the camera saw it more like how I saw it. The sun almost looks like an artifact, or like a photoshopped dot of color in the sky. The mountains in the reverse direction looked like they were covered in fog, but no, it was ash and smoke. My plants have a dusting of ash on them.