Last night, Helen and I were watching a film in our living room, and there was an orangey glow in the sky from the sun behind a cloud. It wasn’t that vivid, but it was pretty. And then the sun suddenly dropped beneath the cloud to reveal the view you can see in the picture above (which gets bigger if you click on it).
It was a matter of seconds only: you couldn’t see it, then you could. Luckily my camera was to hand so I ran out onto the balcony and quickly took about 50 pictures of which the above was the best one. A couple of minutes later it was below the horizon. It happens so quickly, it really is astonishing.
One of these days, I shall take a sequence of pictures at exactly 1 minute intervals as the sun goes down and post them all in one blog to demonstrate this effect. Hopefully tomorrow, if the weather is still fine.
Cheers, Tom.
(tags: sea, sun, orange, sunset, photography)
16/04/08 @ 10:21