For as long as I can remember I’ve been totally fascinated and in love with sunsets. As a young adult back in Australia, when there was a hint of an incoming stunner, I would grab my camera and race down to the local bush track where I’d sit on the rocks overlooking the bushland and let myself escape into the sunset. I’m not sure if it’s the romance of them, or just the sheer beauty that something so amazing can come from nothing, be on parade for a short time, and then before you know it hidden in the darkness of night…the best of all they cost nothing to enjoy.
Whenever I travel and have the chance to take in the evening light, I’ll grab it every time. On days when I’m lucky enough to make it out of the door from work while there’s still daylight, and the Wellington sky is putting on a performance for me, I’ll generally stop down by the beach to take it all in, take a moment to unwind, and just enjoy the peace and let the stress go.
At home I’ve spent countless hours standing out on our deck, or just taking a seat in the adjoining living room, enjoying the view of the top of the South Island of New Zealand and what the sun go down in all it’s glory as it lights up the evening sky with splashes of colour. Many times I’ve shouted with enthusiasm to my family with now familiar exclamations of “LOOK AT IT, LOOK AT IT!!!” in the hope they may share even just a glance of the beauty that unfolds in front of them. It’s now an ongoing joke with any friends that come to visit and share the same treatment.
I find it’s something I just never get tired, and nor do I ever want to, as no two sunsets are ever the same. The exact same view from our house presents itself in many different varieties of performance, with me as the spectator simply taken along for the ride every time.
This is merely a small taste of the numerous sunsets I’ve captured.
I think there is a wonderful thing about a sunset, we can share the exact same sunset with others in another part of the world, we can be away from our family, yet both looking at the same sky. There’s something that’s pretty simple, yet amazing and wonderful about that.
I would love to see photos of sunsets from your part of the world.
Can never go wrong with a beautiful sunset to help relax.