This is fully zoomed on my phone, the camera is certainly amazing on this. The light was low yet its picked up the colours brilliantly no editing done!xx

Olympus EM1 + Fujian 35mm CCTV, C-mount lens.

The Traveller’s joy has nothing to do with British Railways but is one of the names of the Wild Clematis (Clematis vitalba). It is a vigorous climber that grow in abundance alongside roads and railway tracks barely visible here in the background. It flowers in white in summer, and decorates countryside hedgerows and trees with silvery balls of white feathery seadheads in late autumn and winter months. It looks beautiful on a dull day and spectacular in the sun for the joy of passers-by. Taken from Dundas Aqueduct. Somerset, England, UK.

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red sky at sunset

night sky tonight

Photographed 17 February 2017, Abandoned Building Salt Impoundments, Laem Phak Bia, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand

Latin - Himantopus himantopus himantopus

Spanish - Cigüeñuela común

French - Échasse blanche

Italian - Cavaliere d'Italia

German - Stelzenläufer

Russian - Ходулочник

Thai - นกตีนเทียน

Icelandic - Langfætta

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red sky at night

Long exposure sunset image taken over Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

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Photographed 07 September 2017, Dump & Abandoned Building Area, Laem Phak Bia, Phetchaburi, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand

Latin - Himantopus himantopus himantopus

Spanish - Cigüeñuela común

French - Échasse blanche

Italian - Cavaliere d'Italia

German - Stelzenläufer

Russian - Ходулочник

Thai - นกตีนเทียน

Icelandic - Langfætta

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Photographed 19 February 2017, King's Project, Laem Phak Bia Environment Research Development Project, Wat Samut Khodom, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand

Latin - Himantopus himantopus himantopus

Spanish - Cigüeñuela común

French - Échasse blanche

Italian - Cavaliere d'Italia

German - Stelzenläufer

Russian - Ходулочник

Thai - นกตีนเทียน

Icelandic - Langfætta

The Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a striking, long-legged wader with extremely slender pinkish-red legs, a long straight black bill, white underparts, and contrasting black wings and back, with males often showing more extensive dark coloration on the head and neck. It favors shallow wetlands, marshes, lagoons, mudflats, rice fields, salt pans, and flooded agricultural areas, where it wades through shallow water searching for insects, crustaceans, small mollusks, and other aquatic prey. It has a broad distribution across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, southern and central Asia, and parts of Southeast Asia, with some populations resident and others migratory; the species is widespread and classified as Least Concern.

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The Traveller’s joy or the Wild Clematis (Clematis vitalba) is a vigorous climber that decorates hedges in the countryside with swirls of silver white seedheads glowing even on a dull day through winter months and lively sparkling in sunshine to the joy of passers-by, hence the common name. Another name is the Old man's beard, not far from truth especially if looking at seedheads en masse. The Cotswold Way, Lansdown, Bath, BANES, England, U.K.

Photographed 17 February 2017, Bang Chak Wetlands, Phetchaburi, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand

Latin - Himantopus himantopus himantopus

Spanish - Cigüeñuela común

French - Échasse blanche

Italian - Cavaliere d'Italia

German - Stelzenläufer

Russian - Ходулочник

Thai - นกตีนเทียน

Icelandic - Langfætta

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Photographed 19 February 2017, King's Project, Laem Phak Bia Environment Research Development Project, Wat Samut Khodom, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand

Latin - Himantopus himantopus himantopus

Spanish - Cigüeñuela común

French - Échasse blanche

Italian - Cavaliere d'Italia

German - Stelzenläufer

Russian - Ходулочник

Thai - นกตีนเทียน

Icelandic - Langfætta

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Lens: Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports

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Watching the sunset in New York was definitely one of my favourite moments from this trip. Fighting for position meant that I wasn't able to use a long exposure or mess too much with settings for my piccys :o( I do however feel we took in the moment and it's one we will treasure.

Harrogate, North Yorkshire

Amazing light... but not for a golden hour.

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Shepherds's delight - Red sky at night shepherd's delight

Photographed 17 September 2017, King's Project, Laem Phak Bia Environment Research Development Project, Wat Samut Khodom, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand

Latin - Himantopus himantopus himantopus

Spanish - Cigüeñuela común

French - Échasse blanche

Italian - Cavaliere d'Italia

German - Stelzenläufer

Russian - Ходулочник

Thai - นกตีนเทียน

Icelandic - Langfætta

The Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a striking, long-legged wader about 35–40 cm long, with exceptionally long pinkish-red legs, a thin straight black bill, white underparts, and contrasting black wings and back. It inhabits shallow freshwater and saline wetlands—including marshes, lagoons, mudflats, rice fields, saltpans, and flooded agricultural areas—where it walks through shallow water and probes for aquatic insects, crustaceans, mollusks, tadpoles, and other small prey. Its range extends across southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and parts of Australasia, with populations variously resident or migratory, and it remains Least Concern globally. Taxonomically, the Black-winged Stilt belongs to the Himantopus superspecies, a complex historically treated either as one widespread species or divided into several species. The complex includes the Black-winged Stilt (H. himantopus), Black-necked Stilt (H. mexicanus), White-backed Stilt (H. melanurus), White-headed Stilt (H. leucocephalus), and Black Stilt (H. novaezelandiae), among others depending on the taxonomic authority. The Black-necked Stilt, particularly the North and Central American form, is therefore an important member of the former Himantopus superspecies complex rather than simply a subspecies of H. himantopus in modern treatments.

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An awesome red sunset shot in Phuket, Thailand with an amazing red sunburst reflecting the sun's brilliant last rays through the skies and over the water / ocean.

The birds are flying home to their nests before this pretty red glow changes to the darkness of night.

red sky at night, shepherds delight and all that...

Now, the astute observers amongst you will probably discern two bridges in this view rather than one. It's just that the smaller, railway bridge behind the road bridge, rarely gets referred too in its own right. People refer to 'Wearmouth Bridge' or sometimes 'the bridges' (not to be confused with 'The Bridges' which is the name of the city's indoor shopping complex!)... are you keeping up?

Anyway, bridges aside, this was taken on the last weekend of Summer when the sun appeared to be signing off for the darker (and colder) evening's ahead.

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This was the beautiful view of the sunset from Rozenhoedkaai looking towards the Belfry.

The belfry of Bruges, or Belfort, is a medieval bell tower in the historical centre of Bruges, Belgium. One of the city's most prominent symbols, the belfry formerly housed a treasury and the municipal archives, and served as an observation post for spotting fires and other danger. A narrow, steep staircase of 366 steps, accessible by the public for an entry fee, leads to the top of the 83-metre-high building, which leans about a metre to the east.

To the sides and back of the tower stands the former market hall, a rectangular building only 44 m broad but 84 m deep, with an inner courtyard. The belfry, accordingly, is also known as the Halletoren (tower of the halls).

The building is a central feature of the 2008 film In Bruges.

The belfry was added to the market square around 1240, when Bruges was prospering as an important centre of the Flemish cloth industry. After a devastating fire in 1280, the tower was largely rebuilt. The city archives, however, were forever lost to the flames.

The octagonal upper stage of the belfry was added between 1483 and 1487, and capped with a wooden spire bearing an image of Saint Michael, banner in hand and dragon underfoot. The spire did not last long: a lightning strike in 1493 reduced it to ashes, and destroyed the bells as well. A wooden spire crowned the summit again for some two-and-a-half centuries, before it, too, fell victim to flames in 1741. The spire was never replaced again, thus making the current height of the building somewhat lower than in the past; but an openwork stone parapet in Gothic style was added to the rooftop in 1822.

A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, titled "The Belfry of Bruges," refers to the building's checkered history:

In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown;

Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er the town.

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Red sky at night, Shepherds delight.

...the sky was exactly this colour! It was a beautiful cold, crisp afternoon and the sky was absolutely gorgeous...it was so red. I'm sure the shepherds would have been delighted!

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You can download any one or all of the Windlight Presets by clicking on the links below, feel free to do with as you please, its our sky XD. (use with the East angle - in lighting to get shadows where you want them, these were all put to roughly the same for comparison in this comp).

1. MagicHour

2. London 2026

3. London 2050

4. Verdigris

5. Rot

6. Shadows Bright Day

7. Maroon

8. Shepherds Delight

9. Bright2

10. Morning Glory

11. Dusty

or... Download ALL

PC users put the unzipped .xml file in C:\Program Files\SecondLife\app_settings\windlight\skies

Mac Users right click Second Life in applications, show contents, then put the unzipped .xml file in Contents\Resources\app_settings\windlight\skies folder.

Some of these settings have been made with shadows in mind, some before, most of them attempt to emulate 'Magic Hour', the first and last hour of sunlight during the day when the quality of the light and shadows (long) is perfect for cinematography.

Conrad Hall said that "Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.... There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job."

I leave you with some other thoughts on shadows.

"Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories."

Elie Wiesel

"what is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Anthony Ferrer

"To contemplate is to look at shadows."

Victor Hugo

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

John Ruskin

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Sorry for not being around much but been busy decorating my house..here's one i found in the archives...gosh it's dusty in there..BWATCHOOOOO!!..*sniff* :)

Sometimes you don't need to go any further than your own bathroom window!! ;-)

Location: Along the Route 62 between Barrydale and Ladismith.

Red sky at night, shepherd's delight.

Red sky in the morning, shepherds take warning.

If the morning skies are red, it is because clear skies to the east permit the sun to light the undersides of moisture-bearing clouds coming in from the west. Conversely, in order to see red clouds in the evening, sunlight must have a clear path from the west in order to illuminate moisture-bearing clouds moving off to the east.

So when I noticed the sky literally explode with shades of red while I was driving through the Little Karoo on Friday evening, I smiled to myself and thought… Great, the weather-guys had it wrong… it’s going to be a nice day tomorrow!!

It rained the whole day long on Saturday!!!

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Equipment: Sony Alpha 100 (Sigma 10-20mm)

Date: April 2008

The intense red sky on Tuesday night

Camera Settings:

Canon 450D - RAW format

f11

3.0 Sec

ISO200

WB Cloudy

Lee Filter 105mm Circular Polariser

17-40 mm f/4.0 Canon EF wide-angle zoom lens

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The Irish weather is like Winter at the moment so here is a picture taken on the Eve of the Solstice a couple of years age .

It was taken on the Hill of Tara and the following day indeed we had a wonderfull Solstice Sunrise.

Red sky at night, shepherds delight. I took this with my telephoto lens out of the window.

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A wonderful sunset, below a new moon, all viewed from my chair.