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Of sunrises and sunsets...

30/5/2012

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Sunrise
Sunrises and sunsets, when they are frozen in a single photo, might look similar and occasional viewers tend to mistake them for each other.
It’s ironically peculiar, because, after all there is nothing more different from a sunset than a sunrise; it’s not just a matter of temporal evolution, but also a difference in temperature, in environment, in spirit.
Sunrise is  more secluded, more private, mostly in summer when the sun repeats its performance every day at a little earlier hour.
Sunset is a public celebration, which people share all together, often from a table of a sidewalk restaurant, from a public  bench.
Sunrise is full of unexpressed promises; it offers a brand new light when the curtain of night falls.
Sunrise is often silent, only the birds change their songs while the horizon shivers at East to get open for a moment into a purple wound, from which a sudden gush of gold flows impalpably.
Sunset is opulent like the vestment of a cardinal, is seductive and tired like an already made-up  actress, is sound and impressive like the last  note of a symphony and then leaves us  on the doorstep of another night.
Still sunrise and sunset, for a handful of second might look alike, a couple of twins parted at their birth and condemned to never meet again.


 

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Every viewer tends unconsciously to identify him/herself in the image they are
looking at, so the majority of people  think that a photo must rather be of a
sunset simply because people are more familiar to sunsets.
I feel sympathetic
with the ones who see a sunrise also in a photo of a sunset instead.

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Barry
2/6/2012 04:24:03 am

Nature puts on this spectacular every day - and I am always willing to spend the time to see it, It never ceases to inspire me with its warming light in the morning or its soft transition to velvet blue and inky blackness at sunset. Being a bit of an astronomer the dance of the sun relative to its planetary neighbours and the distant stars is a marvel to observe.... Will you be watching when Venus transits the sun on June the 6th - last chance for 105 years. I am lucky enough to see it from just after sunrise in australia to its conclusion. In europe the transit will be in progress as the sun rises - which also makes it easy to see and photograph for a short time until it gets too bright. A special sunrise for sure.

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11/10/2013 05:57:59 am

As a photographer I usually make use of the beauty of nature as much as possible. There is no lack of shots and frames while absorbing the glamour of this wonderful world. I feel very much alive while capturing each and every corner of nature. Thanks for this amazing blog!

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