Seeing ‘Red’ is always much better when it’s a beautiful Adelaide sunset.

You might think such a sight would lift the stress from the day and ease the mind into a relaxed evening.

For me the experience is very different. The width of the sun in the sky is around 0.5 degrees of arc and of course we all know that the earth rotates 360 degrees in a day so that means that the total time it takes for the sun to move from its radius above the horizon to fully disappear is only 3 minutes. That’s 3 minutes of stress for me creating the image or images I feel best conveys the the uniqueness of the sunset.

Sometimes depending on the atmospheric conditions the sunset can linger on for a little longer as the suns rays are curved around the earth through refraction.

This time it just dipped below the horizon leaving me simply sea’ing red.

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 829, I Sea Red’, 1/800s f14 ISO100 310mm