Sunsets

[eighthobstruction]

I told you it was intermittent.....I should add very intermittent.....shut up.... ....so intermittent that....

[vinteuil]

Beautiful though many of these photographs are, am I alone in missing the changing drama of the sunset? To me it's a process leading to an instant ... and then it's gone for another day.

... what they are missing is the essential glass of wine in the hand, which shd accompany all good sunsets. Or even ordinary sunsets...

[amateur51]

There is that, ami; but what these photos capture for me is that breath-catching moment when you come out of doors and see a sunset in mid-glory. It's a quite unique feeling of awe mixed with joy and a pinch of melancholy that the photos evoke.

I agree ferney but I think it's like the difference between a bleeding chunk/extracts radio station and a sit-for-the-full-ride grown-up radio station

[Nick Armstrong]

... what they are missing is the essential glass of wine in the hand, which shd accompany all good sunsets. Or even ordinary sunsets...

Unless, as mentioned a little while ago, one is driving...

However, I did have a glass of something to hand whilst surveying this scene



(Coast of northern Ecuador)

[eighthobstruction]

Calibantransglobal ....that's really lovely.....reminds me of a sunset I saw when I was a slavegirl at the court of KIng Caratacus.....

[Nick Armstrong]

Calibantransglobal ....that's really lovely.....reminds me of a sunset I saw when I was a slavegirl at the court of KIng Caratacus.....

[Anna]

I think I may have put this on the Stormy Thread when we had a discussion about katabatic mist and the whole weekend when we were enveloped here?

[Nick Armstrong]

I think I may have put this on the Stormy Thread when we had a discussion about katabatic mist and the whole weekend when we were enveloped here?

Yes you did but it's an unbelievable picture. Did I comment that it makes me think of a Samuel Palmer landscape?

[Anna]

Yes you did but it's an unbelievable picture. Did I comment that it makes me think of a Samuel Palmer landscape?

No, but feel free to comment that it makes you think of a Samuel Palmer ......
(actually, I think it wasn't this one that I posted but one rather less misty with a bluer sky)

[Nick Armstrong]

No, but feel free to comment that it makes you think of a Samuel Palmer ......
(actually, I think it wasn't this one that I posted but one rather less misty with a bluer sky)

A landscape and a sun/moon and an ethereal wash of colour....

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/sep/24/art

I remember a bluer, frosty pic too... Please post the other one you're think of as well!

[teamsaint]

sunset round here, a few mins ago.

[Serial_Apologist]

Lovely, teamsaint. We had it here in London too - mentioned on the Stormy Weather board.

[clive heath]

Saw this one too, from the heights on which Waddesdon Manor is situated, family home of the Rothschilds of whom Pannonica has a strong connection with Jazz in general and Thelonius Monk in particular. It was many years after learning and playing "Nica's Dream" that I heard the story of the rich girl going a bit boho and supporting the music/musicians she had grown to like/love. There is a Light show for winter visitors created by Bruce Munro who has Ladysmith Black Mombaza as a sound track to one of his installations, if this was pre-chosen then his timing makes him an honorary Jazzer!

[Mr Pee]

A friend of mine put this lovely picture up on Facebook yesterday, of Sunday evening's sunset over The Palace of Westminster:-



A perfect cover for a CD of The London Symphony, I think!!

[teamsaint]

The last knockings of daylight for 2013 , outside TS towers just now.