Author Topic: Sunrises and Sunsets (Read 188073 times)

Salvatore · « **Reply #251 on:** 02 January, 2011, 08:55:40 am »

Quote from: Aidan on 01 January, 2011, 05:41:26 pm

Quote from: Salvatore on 01 January, 2011, 04:27:20 pm

Love that one

Thanks. I got stuck at my Mum's on the way back from the York AUK AGM. Instead of being ther 2 nights I was there nearly 2 weeks. I had a camera with me and the prospect of a snowy sunrise was one of the things which got me out of bed. Here's another from the same morning

gonzo · « **Reply #252 on:** 02 January, 2011, 05:41:22 pm »

Because I feel I need to give something back to this thread (my favouriute thread on this forum by a long shot!)

Clandy · « **Reply #253 on:** 02 January, 2011, 05:50:56 pm »

ed_o_brain · « **Reply #254 on:** 03 January, 2011, 07:46:06 pm »

Clandy................. luverrly pictures! I really do like sunset contre-jour photos.

Here is one I snapped on New Year's Day... not exactly a sunset, that was obscured by the clouds, but the day sure was giving it's last ebb.

gonzo · « **Reply #255 on:** 23 January, 2011, 10:42:34 am »

Good god! That's /actually/ Mordor!

Simonb · « **Reply #256 on:** 23 January, 2011, 11:13:17 am »

Ramsgate, 18th February 2008: this spectacular sunset was visible across most of the UK. The effect was due to unusually low temperatures in the stratosphere causing very high altitude cirrostratus to form. These conditions were at their peak on 18th and the day before.

Salvatore · « **Reply #257 on:** 25 January, 2011, 12:21:51 pm »

Crater rim, Kilimanjaro, Jan 6th 1999.

fuzzy · « **Reply #258 on:** 25 January, 2011, 02:15:16 pm »

Salvatore, that is a stunning photo

Salvatore · « **Reply #259 on:** 26 January, 2011, 07:08:04 am »

Quote from: fuzzy on 25 January, 2011, 02:15:16 pm

Salvatore, that is a stunning photo

Thanks fuzzy. I don't think I've ever welcomed a sunrise as much as that one. We'd been up since half past midnight, slogging up loose scree at -10° in 40-50mph winds with only the boots of the person in front visible in the dim light of my headtorch. And although we were fairly well acclimatised by climbing Mt Kenya (strictly speaking Lenana Point) the week before, being at 5000+m asl adds its own difficulties.

But everything changed once the sun came up. To the north I could see Mt Kenya. I've read that Kili-Mt Kenya is the furthest you can see between two points on the earth's surface. I don't know if that's true, but at over 200 miles it shows how clear it was that day at that altitude.

With the sunrise behind me approaching Uhuru Peak (5895m asl, just beyond the figure on the right), with its own shadow on the clouds.

Salvatore · « **Reply #260 on:** 26 January, 2011, 02:52:11 pm »

Kilimanjaro 1999 again. Barafu* Camp, 4600 m asl. The evening before the summit day. Just as the sun was setting, clouds bubbled up from the floor of the Rift Valley thousands of feet below. It was as if the mountain had conspired with the weather to say "Look, you think you're clever getting this far, but there's still a long way to go, and we can still make it very difficult for you. This is just a show - tomorrow it's the real thing"

As luck would have it, someone was standing silhouetted against the sky, and the tiny figure sums up nicely how insignificant I felt at that moment in the face of the elements.

*barafu is swahili for ice

Riggers · « **Reply #261 on:** 02 February, 2011, 04:34:46 pm »

Taken by David Kaplan. What a fantastic photo! One can well imagine the photographers reaction with everything just 'coming together': the clear sky, the alignment of Venus and the Moon, the beautiful colours and the way the town's lights put a blush on the lowering clouds.

APOD: 2011 February 2 - Moon and Venus over Switzerland