This was the view from atop Hillside Park in Bismarck last night. I’d hoped to get a chance to stake out the sunset, but a 13-hour animating session kept me busy until just after 9 o’clock. After we checked the DVD master to make sure all was well, I dragged my tired butt into the truck and headed home, stopping by the park to grab as much as I could of the remaining color in the sky. This is the result of its waning moments.

Hillside Park in Bismarck is one of my favorite vantage points for photographing sunsets in our fair cities. A good sunrise, sunset, or aurora photo is lacking if it does not have a good foreground object, and the Bismarck-Mandan area is a foreground near & dear to my heart. If you feel the same way, join me on the hill sometime! Don’t be afraid to come on over and say hello.

The photo below is my favorite sunset photo taken from this area. I took it with a simple little $200 point-n-shoot digital camera in 2003. I believe it was mid-summer when the sun began to cross the horizon just behind the capitol building, it was a good catch.

Bonus: Click here to watch a video time lapse of this sunset (Windows Media format).