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Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — ¹/250 sec, f/8, ISO 8000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Ridgeline By the Numbers
13,781 meters away
8,000 ISO sensitivity
21 minutes after sunset
500 mm focal length
33,765th photo taken with my D700

In the large version, you can see individual branches on the trees. Not too bad for almost 14km away, handheld.

I was gratified not only to be able to pick up the camera today, but to actually remember how to use it. Kyoto had a mild version this evening of the sunset described in my November 2008 post “Today's Sunset: the Deepest, Truest Orange I Have Ever Seen”. Like then, I was at my condo and just ran up to the top floor to catch the view.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — ¹/200 sec, f/9, ISO 1400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Early View
9 minutes after sunset

The picture above represents the true experience of what you'd see at that time, but to get the photo to that point I had to do a lot of processing in Lightroom to make the buildings less dark and the sky less yellow (there wasn't the slightest trace of yellow, but it comes across as yellow in the brighter areas due to limitations with camera sensor technology that I don't have enough skill to work around).

The color in the first picture, taken 12 minutes later, is accurate, but it gives a somewhat false impression of the overall scene because by the time the color had deepened to that level, it had faded from most of the sky, but you can't see that because it's not in frame. (The sunset from a couple of years ago was that deep even when the whole sky was that color, so it was much better, but today's sunset was the best since then.)

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 50 mm — ¹/200 sec, f/4.5, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Less Post Processing
Less Realistic
( More Beautiful )

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 210 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/6, ISO 8000 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/6.3, ISO 8000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Trapped

The gargoyles or whatever line the roof of the private Chinese museum next door would have been great in silhouette if it weren't for the netting they have over the whole thing (to catch, I would think, any part of the aging roof that might fall, before it lands on a pedestrian).

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 95 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/5, ISO 5000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Inverse Waves
sunlight skips off the bottom edges of cloud ridges

UPDATE: Cool, Nils has posted short video of the sunset.