Photo: Smoke plume sunset

Smoke plume at sunset.  Photo by Carl Dinse.

Photographer Carl Dinse says "I was capturing the smoke plume of the wild fire in the Olympic mountains during sunset, after sunset actually, the sun went down faster than I anticipated."

Taken from the Edmonds waterfront, September 10, 2011, the plume is from the Big Hump fire near Brinnon in the Olympic Forest.  The fire started August 31 and is still burning.