Northwest Territories Forest Smoke at Sunset Colour Landscape Photography
Dark Tree Silhouettes Above a Low Layer of Smoke
Smoke was still hanging close to the ground when I drove through this stretch of the Northwest Territories. It could have looked like mist at a glance, but I was travelling through the area while forest fires were active. As the day ended, the sky took on a warm orange colour above the trees. I photographed the view while those conditions held together, with the lower haze and evening light forming very different layers.
The trees make a broken line across the frame, some retaining denser branches while others appear as thin, stripped trunks. Their heights vary enough to keep the silhouette from becoming a single flat band. Behind the closest trees, more distant outlines gradually fade into the smoke. Near the ground, that same smoke softens the trunks and obscures much of the forest floor. Above, the orange sky becomes paler toward the top, with a muted cloud shape at the right.
I kept the photograph in colour because the relationship between the sky and the low smoke was central to what I had seen. The warmer light sits above cooler, subdued tones, while the dark trees connect the two. I remember how quiet the landscape seemed in that brief view from my journey. The image holds both the visible effects of the fire and the changing light at the end of the day. I wanted neither to disappear into the other, leaving the trees, smoke and sunset clearly present within the same landscape.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2025
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