These are some shots of the weird hazy air from the fires in California. Taken in Oakland, CA, rather far away from the sources of the smoke. The smell of smoke was still present in the air!

These pics were all taken on June 26 around 7:00 pm from my balcony in Oakland.

At regular exposure:

Next is the same shot but at a lower exposure to see the sun’s disk better:

Close up of the evil red sun:

The smoke made my view of the Oakland hills a bit hazy. The first shot is of the hills as they normally look at that time, and tghe second shot is what the hills looked like the same time as I was taking the above pictures of the red sun: