Walking the dogs yesterday evening, the sunset was our signal to call it a day and head for home.
Tag Archives: sunset
Just be
Radiant Clouds
On the dark side
A very few of many sunsets
Beijing Capital International Airport
Toyama Castle in Japan
Rainbow at sunset in Quartzsite, Arizona.
My first foray into both going off of auto and night photography, came from a desire to capture the Takae Lantern Festival in Nara Japan in 2007. These were taken with my trusty old Canon A510, using ISO 400 and a walking stick mono-pod.
Stairway to a small shrine.
Fields of lanterns.
Festival go-ers in yukata (summer kimono).
Street vendors.
Elaborate lantern assembly.
Since then I’ve moved up, a bit, in both camera and skill, but I continue to use a walking stick/monopod and do not use a tripod. It just doesn’t work for me to carry one around. I am still quite challenged by dark pictures, in part because I don’t use a tripod and in part because I use a “bridge” camera, Nikon P610, which has a relatively small sensor so it wants longer shutter speeds and it gets grainy pretty fast at higher ISO settings.
I keep trying because I think night pictures often give you a better feel for the atmosphere of a place than day shots. People are off work and going about their business.
A few night street scenes in China and Japan:
Street vendor in Weifang China
Street and pedestrian traffic in Tai’an China
Beihai Lu in Weifang China.
Street scene in Takayama Japan.
Street scene in Takayama Japan.
I am often disappointed by the moon. My eye sees it bigger than my camera lens does:
The darkness of the night and motion of the boats in these pictures of cormorant fishing in Gifu, Japan, meant that all the pictures were blurry. I tried a “painterly” effect to make it seem like art instead of just a blurry picture.
I’m not a morning person so I only have sunrise pictures from far away places (where I have jet lag). Here are a few from Kenya.
Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Sunset to Sunrise.
Sky Aglow
Some pictures of sunrises and sunsets from home and away in response to the Daily Post Photo Challenge:Glow.
Sunrise, approaching Dunedin, New Zealand
Desert Hot Springs California, sunset
Sunset at Cedarhurst on Vashon Island, Washington State
Sunrise in Mulundi Village, Kenya
Sunrise and air balloon Masai Mara in Kenya.
Golden sunset, Cedarhurst on Vashon Island, Washington State.
Sunrise at Penglai, Shandong Provincce, China.
Emergency Sunset
Driving home from my dad;s tonight I saw purple in the sky. From the raod I couldn’t really see much, but I was fairly close to a waterfront park (Lowman Beach in West Seattle) so I pulled over and trotted the block or so to the park.
It’s been a busy week: my niece graduated from high school and I arranged to get my 94 year old grandmother who is mobility impaired to the ceremony. My husband retired on Friday and we had a celebration dinner party. We had a family gathering today at my dad’s to celebrate a belated father’s day, the graduation, and retirement.
I almost didn’t stop for the sunset, since I was ready to be home. However, the twenty minutes or so I spent just being there, watching the shifting colors as the rays of the sun hit different clouds and breathing the salt air were more uplifting than getting home to unload the car and put things away a few minutes earlier. You can’t go back and see a sunset you have missed.
As the sky darkened I noticed the minuscule sliver of the new moon above Mount Constance. A symbol of a new beginning, change, and the circle of life. All the things today’s celebration were about.
Maybe I need to make a bumper sticker or t-shirt that says: I break for sunsets.
Ember in the Sky
This cloud reminds me of a red hot piece of charcoal with dark gray ash covering most of its fire.
Watching the sunset
Tonight the sunset was pretty. The birds seemed to be enjoying it too.
Sadly one reason for the pretty colors is wildfires on the Olympic Peninsula. You can see the large plume of smoke in the picture below, toward the left side.
Half Sky and Half Water
The glory of last night’s sunset was half sky and half water.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Half and Half.”
Through the Looking Glass
The picture above is a reflection of the picture below on the glass of some pictures on the wall, which was taken through a picture window! It is interesting to me how the man, who is in both pictures really seems to stand out in the reflection.
