Sunset
I don't think we have a sunset thread, and I thought that as sunsets can be some of the most breathtaking visions in our lives, it might be worth creating one as I'm sure many of you have beautiful sunset pictures to share also.
This one that I'm opening this thread with was taken yesterday. Unfortunately I only had my phone with me, so that's what it's taken with. I was on my way home and there was a fair bit of storm activity about and it created this (what in real life was a) magnificent and eerie shot. To me it looked more like the begining of an alien invasion than a sunset, but maybe that's just my imagination.
Anyway, here it is in all its slightly blurry and nowhere near complimentary glory.
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Pretty, Aliantha!
Here's one I took on a recent camping trip.
Nice silhouette effect there. :)
I had a rare day off on a business trip about 2 years ago. I attempted a panorama, which is difficult without a tripod.
I happened to be there on a Sunday, which was when the natives had a drum circle to welcome the sunset. It must have worked because the sunset showed up.;)
Wow. Fantastic Rich. That second picture is striking.
@Ali...yours has a lot of drama in it and it brings Close Encounters of the Third kind to mind.
Juniper...very very pretty, soooo subtle.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking Pico, I just couldn't remember which movie it was actually from.
St. Petersburg back in September 1997
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Boston, from Cambridge
West Virginia
Right outside my door.
On the way home from New York
Sunset at Gates Pass, Tucson
View from my Moms house in Tucson
those mountains in the distance have such perfectly straight sides.
Yeah...they're called RoofTop Peaks.
:D
Actually Twin Peaks is nearby...and this is a view of part of it. Do you see the gorilla?
Nose to the right, eye in the middle?
He's laying on his back with his knees up slightly.
Looking out of my front door last June ('07)
I just took some spectacular shots of a sunset in SC. I will post them in a few days when I get off work.
Southern California sunset and the ex. One I will get back one day, the other is doubtful.. :(
Sorry to put a downer on this thread, was going through some old photos on the hard drive while surfing the Cellar. Dangerous combination.
glatt, that's a great picture. I'm trying to see if there are giraffes and lions in the shadows.
nope, just fish under the surface. Thanks, btw.
.~AWESOME SUNSET PICTURE~
makes a great desktop
Kauai sunset pictures from my vacation earlier this year.
Hanalei Bay
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Hanalei Bay
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Poipu Beach
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Sunset off of the Kilauea Lighthouse
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makes a great desktop
Thanks.
Here's the original. You can click on the magnifying glass for the full sized version. I cropped it to post here.
I took this on the way back from a rugby match in Columbia, SC. it was looking across some recently plowed peanut fields. Stunning. We got out and took about 20 pics as the sun set. This is a photo stitch of three.
Very beautiful sight to behold. I may just have to change the background on my computer.
These two were taken yesterday during my evening commute. I cross this bridge twice a day. I've posted other pictures with it in the frame. I like the contrast it displays here. Mount Rainier was tempting me to crash the car. I shot this over my shoulder, Annie Oakley style. No crash, but it might have been worth it.
Shit V, couldn't you have stopped some place safe? :eek:
Wow. That pic with the Mt. in it is great. Well done.
Thanks guys. :)
xoB: I wish. Because the road goes along the surface of the water, there's a long low unobstructed view to the mountain. It's a perfect shot. I take pictures of it all the time. It's on my 2 o'clock heading east, which is fine in the morning. I can shoot through the windshield or the passenger window. Irritatingly, the mountain hides directly beind the A pillar of the windshield when the driver's seat is in the most comfortable position. Oh well. But that also means it's on my 8 o'clock heading home, like during this shot. I knew it would be glorious, the first picture (and the dozen I took before the bridge) were ample warning. But once on the bridge there is no stopping, and it ends in a tunnel, with no real easy exit to come back around for this view, at least I don't know of one. If I knew of one (and I'm certain they exist), I'd probably have to leave an hour earlier to get my pictures in.
mercy: Thanks! It is an icon of the region, in an area blessed with an embarrassment of riches of natural beauty. Did you know that this area is the only place in the whole country where you can stand in one spot and see three different National Parks? A show like this makes me humble and grateful to witness such majesty.
Okay.
Because someone has to represent those of us with a point and shoot and who live on a housing estate.
Elmhurst, Aylesbury as the sun sets:
Nice, SG. Don't dis my camera tho. Point and shoot brings home a *lot* of pictures.
Here are a couple more from last night.
I don't really think it's the camera BigV, that's just my excuse.
This evening, snow an'all!
Wow V and Limey. I love those shots. Good job. And thanks.
Just saw V's pic with the stack of lenticular clouds. Jaw dropping.
That's not a stack of lenticular clouds - that's a close encounter of the second kind.
Looking Out The Front Door.......Changes by the minute.......
Sunsets are one of my favorites times to shoot. I love the twilight especially the wonderful deep purple and blue tones, like Maxfield Parrish pictures. That color is so hard to catch to. I have had some lucky moments with the orange range. The bright orange shot was done out side my allergists' which is on top of a hill. I came out at the right moment. Shots like that are why i carry my camera alw[ATTACH]21874[/ATTACH]
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I took this sunset pic a few years ago (w/a $90 point & shoot Fuji FinePix 4mp (that I own)). Everyone's pix are really nice.
B E A U T I F U L!
I wish I was where you are, for just a moment to soak that in, and breathe deeply. * ahhh *
WE haven't had much snow compared with the rest of Scotland, but it's certainly been cccolllldddd out.
brrr
Wear a hat.
You just haven't thawed out from last winter.
WE haven't had much snow compared with the rest of Scotland, but it's certainly been cccolllldddd out.
I bet, but we want what we don't have. I'd have to climb a mountain to see snow and sunshine like that and it's just not happening.
Yellowstone sunset with bison
That's a beautiful photo too bullitt.
I know, I have posted it before, but still one of the best pics of a sunset I have ever taken...
The textures in the clouds are what make the picture really pop. Well done Merc.
We could not believe it when we saw it. We were traveling the back roads home from Columbia, SC to Savannah when we came on it, you know like the key to a successful life, timing, position, and lubrication... anyway, it was over looking a plowed peanut field. I have about 5 or 6 others that show the sky as it evolved. They are all a bit different and just as spectacular. This pic was stitched.
wow, It's breathtaking.
I would love to see the progression pics. Myself,. I would.
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That's a beautiful photo too bullitt.
Thanks
wow mercy. outstanding. I have family in SC. After seeing your pic, I now have two reasons to come back soon.
From my cruise last year.
These two were taken yesterday during my evening commute. I cross this bridge twice a day. I've posted other pictures with it in the frame. I like the contrast it displays here. Mount Rainier was tempting me to crash the car. I shot this over my shoulder, Annie Oakley style. No crash, but it might have been worth it.
Awesome amazing photos my friend, I've said it before if that whole computer cure thing doesn't pan out for you you've got another career.
I'd love a hi res version of those two. Christmas is coming...
Last night while putting up Christmas decorations.....
Arizona gives good sunset!
nice foot! glad to see some shots from you. I love the bike one.
Is that real color?
It's actually ones and zeroes, but yes, those are often the colors of the sky where I live.
nice foot! glad to see some shots from you. I love the bike one.
Thanks Glatt, The bike one is from a series of about 100 shots done in the half hour before it got too dark to see and the inch was on his new bike for the first time.
It's actually ones and zeroes, but yes, those are often the colors of the sky where I live.
Right...I see some pretty great sunsets here, but I don't know if they appear that vivd, on camera (and this is viewing second hand on an off-the-shelf HP monitor). Is it a really good camera? I shall have to join the sunset snappers group.
It's a Canon 710 IS. They don't make it anymore, I think the latest has 12mp instead of 7. I really like Canon's products.
Right...I see some pretty great sunsets here, but I don't know if they appear that vivd, on camera (and this is viewing second hand on an off-the-shelf HP monitor). Is it a really good camera? I shall have to join the sunset snappers group.
The trick to a good sunset picture for many cameras is to underexpose it a little bit. Sometimes the cameras think they are smarter than you, trying to lighten the picture, but they're wrong.
Oh yes. I Always shoot on manual and judge by the screen or histogram
Right...I see some pretty great sunsets here, but I don't know if they appear that vivd, on camera (and this is viewing second hand on an off-the-shelf HP monitor). Is it a really good camera? I shall have to join the sunset snappers group.
The times I spent camping in the southwest, the sunsets seemed more pastel, than they do further north.
The times I spent camping in the southwest, the sunsets seemed more pastel, than they do further north.
I think that has to do with super fine dust particles in the atmosphere, I read something about how smog and other shit contributes the the colors of the sunsets.
Ooooooouuuuu ominous !
No,
mammatus. Close though,
more here.
I'll say this for the Big Freeze in the UK - it gives good sunsets ...
taken tonight while taking a break from working on my truck. WX was pretty bad today in H-town....
and this is the rainbow that the previous pic produced....
taken tonight while taking a break from working on my truck. WX was pretty bad today in H-town....
I love this one. Thank you for taking the time to capture it.
Here's a sunset from the coast of North West Island which is a coral atol about 50 miles off the east coast of Oz.
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BTW plthijinx, I'm digging your pic in post #81, too.
Saw this view as I was walking out of the Kohls in Tucson last night. My camera phone doesn't really do it justice though.
On the way to Baby's house.
I don't think we have a sunset thread, and I thought that as sunsets can be some of the most breathtaking visions in our lives, it might be worth creating one as I'm sure many of you have beautiful sunset pictures to share also.
This one that I'm opening this thread with was taken yesterday. Unfortunately I only had my phone with me, so that's what it's taken with. I was on my way home and there was a fair bit of storm activity about and it created this (what in real life was a) magnificent and eerie shot. To me it looked more like the begining of an alien invasion than a sunset, but maybe that's just my imagination.
Anyway, here it is in all its slightly blurry and nowhere near complimentary glory.
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I also think so.
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I love shooting sunsets and you never know when you will be in the right place at the right time. I took this while just hanging out one of my son and laws family at their cottage on Lake Ontario. I shot it with my Canon 100-400 racked full out and with a 1.4 tele extender and it's hand held but I was at least sitting in a lawn chair using my arms with elbows braced on the chair's arm pieces, sort of a home made bipod. Pretty cool that it worked out as it is tack sharp.
I like the fishing boat rushing to get back to Sotus bay before dark.
Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shinin'....
The trick of a good sunset-over-the-water shot is that you need a bunch of other stuff to look at. Really, you need a photo that would be a good photo even without the sunset. Like that one.
Too true. At a minimum, you need a couple trees in there. But a lighthouse and some boats is even better.
Here's a link to
27 Beautiful Sunset Pictures, and I'd stack up chrisinhouston's picture against any or all of them.
Here's a link to 27 Beautiful Sunset Pictures, and I'd stack up chrisinhouston's picture against any or all of them.
Thanks xoxoxoBruce!
As always it is about being in the right place at the right time! And it helps to have a decent camera and a longer lens that will accentuate and increase the size of the sun. I think a tripod is also a must as you can shoot at a lower ISO without worrying about blurs from a shaky camera.
Here is one from my Aruba trip a few years ago. Needless to say I have many more from this series but I like the juxtaposition of the sun behind the wind surfer.
Short story behind this one...My partner and I met in a chat room on MSN 11 years ago. He flew to Florida to meet me on Valentines Day, 2003. I took him out to dinner to a nice restaurant on the beach. Fast forward 10 years and I took him back to that same restaurant for our 10 year anniversary. This photo was taken there. After dinner, we went for a walk along the boardwalk where he dropped to one knee and proposed. I said yes.
Then came the happily ever after, right? ;)
I know "congratulations" is ... tacky or has some other negative vibe to it, but what the heck. Congratulations, and I hope you have many happy years to come!
I saw the strangest sunset the other evening on my way home. Here are a couple shots of it, taken a couple minutes apart. The Close Encounters column appears to be emanating from a peak in the Olympics called
The Brothers.
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That phenomenon has a name...
...it'd be nice if I could think of it.
That phenomenon has a name...
...it'd be nice if I could think of it.
Light pillar?Good find! Your trip into the archives produced a post from before my time. Apparently before the use of "years" in dates. Waaaay back in the day. :)
Two pics, one sunset:
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joo get a new camera er sum'in?
I did.:D
ETA: Although post #111 is the old camera.
Canon EOS Rebel T6 Premium Kit from Best Buy was too cheap to pass up. Spur of the moment birthday gift for m'self. I hope it turns out better than the microwave.
It's got the 18-55 EF-S, and the 75-300 EF lenses. The 75-300 is faster on the auto focus than the smaller lens. It's surprisingly fast.
Good find! Your trip into the archives produced a post from before my time. Apparently before the use of "years" in dates. Waaaay back in the day. :)
Yes, trying to find something with Google gets frustrating when they find it but no year to go back in the archives with. But the post UT linked has the paypal donation link, if someone feels so inclined. :lol:
Couple from the Dead & Co. concert on Tuesday.
Clearing out the (recent) old camera pics:
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Couple from the Dead & Co. concert on Tuesday.
God was there. Beautiful. Both shots.
Clearing out the (recent) old camera pics:
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Very cool how the sun is captured there. Reminds me of Africa. Not that I've been. Just looks like there might be a lion creeping up on you.
Ok, why does digrs post include the pic in my quote, and classics doesn't?
I've seen that before, here and elsewhere.:confused:
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Maybe?:o
Very cool how the sun is captured there. Reminds me of Africa. Not that I've been. Just looks like there might be a lion creeping up on you.
It
does look kinda Africa-ish. I liked the overhanging leaves.
I think about creeping lions sometimes, when I'm on the river late, listening to the night. I'm thankful I don't have to worry about lions, tigers, drop bears, gators, or those Australian trees that follow ya home at night and bugger ya in your sleep. All I have to do is kick some rocks around to run off the sneks. I don't like sneks.