Does a sunset have to have the sun in it? Surely if the sun has set then it will not be visible. Perhaps the more traditional images of setting suns should be called sun settings. I have come to love that time well after the sun has set below the horizon but still lighting up […]
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The sun and its golden glow had long since disappeared beyond the western horizon. You could be forgiven for thinking the sunset was over. Looking high up into the eastern sky however the golden orange light of a west bound sun still clung to the clouds. There amidst that orange glow a waning gibbous moon […]
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I love living with a Western horizon hemmed by sea. There is something very special about the sun setting over the ocean. There is a completeness to the day. To watch as the sun moves on to be replaced by the twilight and then the starlight is to have the day’s wrinkles smoothed over by […]
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Nightfall An expression I have not heard in years, ‘nightfall’ came to mind this evening and got me wondering, just when does ‘night fall’? It is easy to describe moments along the way. The moment the sun dips below the horizon. The emergence of the very first stars. The moment a feature on the horizon […]
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Even with the camera sitting on the back seat, after nearly 700Km behind the wheel it seemed like a monumental effort to just pull over and capture this beautiful scene unfolding over the Western New South Wales country toen of Balranald. Once the decision to pull over had been made all that fatigue slipped away, […]
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