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I have taken this photograph for La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos of the orange dawn in the city of Barcelona, referring to the color of the sky, also drawn with a train of clouds over the buildings.
Among all these elements the sun is shown, as if illuminated by the spotlights. And, above, at the top of the image, a seagull seems to observe everything from its high flight.
The orange sky is due to the candilazo, a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that ranges from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is of soft tones between red and orange.
In a certain way, when this light passes through the clouds, it illuminates them and could be said to color them with those tones. The candilazo is also known as arrebol.
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Orange dawn in Barcelona, with the cloud train and the seagull.
Miguel Torres / @maikel
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