This weeks The Gallery theme is Nature and as an extra incentive Tara over at
Sticky Fingers has a prize!! Yes a prize! Not any old thing to give away, but a hamper filled with Green & Blacks chocolate nom nom nom!!
I love taking nature photographs there is such an abundance of beautiful things to appreciate with the lens. In fact it was hard choosing which photo/s to use because I have a lot covered by this theme within my collection.
In the end I have decided to go with Sunsets.
Remember the old saying:
Red sky at night, shepherds delight
I always think of this when I am witness to a beautiful setting sun and the sky it leaves behind once it has been absorbed by the horizon.The colours that the sky displays are so beautiful and vivid.
I wrote a piece of poetry (for the Writing Workshop for Josie at Sleep is for the Weak) back in May where I describe a setting sun:
The glowing sun starts to set
and the twilight sky erupts,
ablaze with vibrant colours
its final incandescence unveiled.
Like a work of art hung in a gallery,
it paints the beauty of mother nature.
The world seems a better place
when the golden sun luminates!
This first photo of the twilight sky could be a painting I think. If it were, I imagine it to have been inspired by an artist with a tormented soul who is expressing so many emotions, as it seems to me to be so fiery and full of anger and yet also showing love and beauty – just so dramatic. I love it!
This next one is again another example of the many different colours the post sunset sky reveals: purple, salmon pink, pink, lilac, grey just gorgeous! I was driving home one night and just had to pull over and capture it.
However, I do think that to witness a sun setting over the sea is an amazing sight and when you are on holiday or after a day in this country, it makes a perfect day in the sun end on a high aswell. Indeed as the dying rays reflect across the ripples and waves, it is almost giving you two sunsets for the price of one!
I will stop writing anymore now and let you enjoy the photos I took at Westward Ho! beach here in North Devon, one cold January afternoon just as the golden sun was setting.
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Oh wow! What gorgeous sunsets! Beautiful. So hard to get decent photos of sunsets!
Lovely
Maggy
those photos are beautiful – I love sunsets 🙂
Such stunning photos!
Stunning….
Beautiful. The first one with the red clouds is seriously stunning. All these lovely photos are putting me to shame. Mine was taken with my phone. 🙂
Beautiful pictures, I also love sunsests, they are sooo romantic 😉
Gorgeous pictures
Gorgeous photos, I love sunsets/sunrises:) Jen
WOW!!!! I love sunsets too:-) I don’t know how to express it well really but they have something promising and comforting besides very romantic.
Such beautiful pictures. I love sunsets too 🙂
Fab Pictures, now i haven’t seen a sunset like that in a long time!
Amazing photographs!
Thanks everyone for your comments seems like the lure and magic of a sunset is shared by us all 🙂
I specially love the middle pic, beautiful yet haunting. Theres something about sunsets thats magical. Nothing better than to sit there with wine a loved one while watching the sun go down. Thanks for the lovely pics, and thanks for stopping by my blog 😀 x
Gosh I love sunsets…. my entry has a sunset amongst it too.
I REALLY love that second one though – through the branches. That one is stunning….
I always remember that saying as well! Stunning pictures, thanks for sharing them all 😀