You are looking at a perfectly ordinary twilight – perfectly ordinary by Raja Ampat standards, at least.
Both photos were taken within a few seconds of each other, several hours after our visit to Aduwey; eventually, a series of multi-image posts will show what happened in its classroom.
The featured image is the fruit of a modest – 120 mm – telephoto lens.
The image below was taken with a wide angle (24 mm) lens.
As the next day would show us, we were yet to reach “peak Raja Ampat visual splendour”.