The colors were not spectacular, but the sky still seemed to be amazingly beautiful as I prepared to depart from Huntley Meadows Park yesterday just after sunset. A long-range telephoto zoom may not be the lens of choice for capturing this kind of a scene, but it was the one that was on my camera at the time and I am pretty happy with the results.
We’ve had so many gray, dull days this winter that a day with the sun shining seemed like a real blessing and I wanted to take advantage of every moment of that sunshine.
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Mike Powell 
Wonderful photograph.
The clouds are wonderfully reminiscent of beach sand, and that lighter angled highlight provides a delightful counterpoint to the smoothness of the others.