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I captured this series of photographs for La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos while walking with my camera through the fields of the town of Tarròs.
The sun is the protagonist, but above all this orange sky that in autumn seems to cover the entire dry land of the Urgell region.
Walking through the fields with this light and color awakens the senses. Orange emerges from the candilazo, a meteorological phenomenon in which the sky shows 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 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, which is the red color seen in clouds illuminated by the sun’s rays, especially at dawn and in the evening.
