Day 66

As stated previously, I really like to photograph sunsets, I love the colors the sky turns, pale yellow, brilliant orange, even pink, if there are clouds hanging about they take on a life of their own. I was lucky as a kid, my grandparents had a house in Florida, we would go visit them every spring and one of the things I loved to do was go to the beach and watch the sunset. I'd be standing on the beach all pink and itchy from sunburn, and wonder, why did the sun seem to go down faster once the sun hit the horizon? As I got older and started to try to take pictures of how it looked, I would get fustrated because the photos didn't look like what I saw. I knew nothing about exposure, lenses and all that technical stuff, what I did know was my Instamatic camera wasn't doing the sunset justice, finally, I figured it all out and I started being able to get pics of that perfectly round firey ball I saw out there hanging over the ocean.

I take photos of sunsets now for my own enjoyment, some of them are kind of cool, but most are ordinary, I don't mean that as a knock on my own photos, I mean I haven't taken one yet that to me is extraordinary, and that is part of the enjoyment. Sunsets happen everyday, you can count on it, you might not be able to see it but the sun definitely goes down. The fun comes on the days you can see it, driving around trying to find a good spot before the sun dissapears, maybe somewhere with the lake in it, or maybe some trees, or a farm. The challenge is always there, and it's a challenge I will gladly take on every time the sun sets.

"Peace is seeing a sunset, and knowing who to thank."-Author Unknown