Photo Challenge – Rise and Set
For this week’s photo challenge, explore the vibrant, hopeful colors of your favorite sunrise or sunset.
Other than from the direction, you can’t tell if the sun is coming up or setting. I’ve done all the checking I can and in fact, the light is the same. It depends on the season of the year, but the coloring is identical otherwise.
And yet we are fascinated by the coming and going of the sun. Even when I was a child, I used to stand outside and watch the sky, sometimes for a full hour from late afternoon until final darkness, watching the delicate changes in the sky and the clouds and the way the light filtered through the trees.
I have not yet lost my wonder.
The rising sun in the mountains in October
A gull at sunrise
Sunset in Douglas
Sunset through clouds
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Categories: #Photography, Dawn, Sunrise, Sunset
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Very nice! My sunset/sunrise pictures all look like there’s a distant blazing inferno somewhere… but there just aren’t any good views of the horizon from my neighborhood. Imagine living at the North Pole and only getting one sunrise and sunset each year…
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I have the trees, so I get it. All my good sunrises and sunsets were taken somewhere other than home. The trees are always in the way.
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My two favorite moments of the day combined in one post 🙂
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all wonderful- especially the beach sunrise
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You totally cannot go wrong with sunrise or sunset at the beach 🙂
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The first two, but especially the seaside sundown, are my favs. Good job Marilyn.., nice color balances too. Hard to do, but when it’s right, it’s right.
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Some of these shots were so easy to take, it’s almost embarrassing. Assuming you have a decent camera, the colors are there and the light is perfect. All you have to do it point and shoot!
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There’s definitely something magical about sunrise/sunset. It’s like a Greek myth that touches us all.
Leslie
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And there is also something a bit magical about it. The way the sky glows at dawn and dusk, the promise of a day to come and the gratitude for the day that was.
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exactly…..
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I hope we never lose our wonder!
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Wonderful. Pics are inspiring as I look out at our slate gray horizon. Ugh.
Love “the last sunset.”…..(Universal/’60) Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. (Dir: Robert Aldrich)
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The colors will always bring us back. They are still, after all these years, amazing to see.
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All beautiful, esp the first. I do think you can see a difference in the light at sunrise vs sunset but wouldn’t want to have to pass a test on it LOL.
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Technically, there is no difference, but there might be a bit based on the direction the sun is taking — down or up. But I wouldn’t want to pass that test either.
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Beautiful photos and countryside.
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Every place is stunning in that light! It reflects on everything.
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Lovely!
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I keep telling people — sunrise and sunset are the easiest pictures to take. Just aim the camera. God does the rest.
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This is a very beautiful entry!
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Thank you. The pictures appeared. I just aimed the camera at them 😉
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