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Another sunset in watford, love it when the sun kisses the clouds on the horizon and then gets covered in a blanket.
Another shot of the sunset behind the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakesh. Such a wonderful atmosphere there, and gorgeous colors of course.
Peaceful evening along the Green River in northwestern Colorado. One of the most spectacular sunsets I've ever seen!
Sunset afterglow @ Seri Menanti, Muar, Johor Darul Takzim. The tide is catching up fast for full tide at 8 PM.
An amazing new found heaven for photography with kelong, togok, angler jetty, mangrove area.
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Spent two days in the UK on a business trip. After work, I thought I'd take a drive up to Salisbury. I only had two hours of daylight left and wanted to go for a drive, no real purpose, just to get away for a bit. Drove passed Stonehenge, I knew that the site is under major construction so it wasn't on my to do list this time. Drove through Salisbury, nice drive but it was a bit of a grey, dull evening so no photos taken. Circled round and took a motorway back to where I came from. Drove over a hill and was completely stunned to see that not only, within the 10 minutes I spent driving on a tree-lined road without a view, the sky had turned into a magnificent sunset, but also that from this side, Stonehenge was visible in all its glory because all the construction was being done on the other side of the hill, and the sun was going down exactly behind it. Only problem was - I was going 80 mph on a very, very busy motorway. I was actually screaming like I was being murdered, panicking about missing this opportunity, knowing that there would be no cheering up possible in the next few days to come if I didn't manage to turn around. So I actually literally risked my life by spotting a tiny tiny dirt road in a right angle to the motorway that I entered at almost full speed by turning the wheel with little braking, because hitting the brakes on the motorway would have caused the car behind me to hit me. I turned the car around in a big cloud of dirt, making my adrenaline peak from feeling like a rally driver, but instantly cursing myself for doing it because there didn't seem to be a way to get back on the motorway because I had no view to the left at all. Risked it by pulling up really hard (well, as hard as a Fiat 500 allows), then 30 seconds after had to make the same sort decision again because at the precise spot I wanted to take photos from there was no emergency lane or parking spot. There was a small construction site along the road, basically a small sandpit marked with pylons - that I actually smashed when I hit the sand (only realizing long afterwards that I had no way of knowing whether I would ever be able to get out of the sand again). I stopped the engine, got my camera, got out, turned around, and all of a sudden, the world went quiet. Even though I stood alongside a busy motorway, it was just quiet. I took a few photos and only then realized I wasn't alone - there was a woman with a motorcycle who had basically done the very same thing right after I did and for the first 5 minutes, we didn't say anything, we basically clicked and cried.
After spending some time talking with her (and not believing my luck as within 15 minutes the sky went grey again), I drove 'home' on a natural high. Even though it was late, I couldn't resist going into 'our' pub (the wonderful Three Daggers in Edington) so I could upload the photos to my laptop to make sure they were real. :-) Ended up being there at least an hour, probably more, with a nice cup of tea (with milk of course, when in England, do as the Brits do) and an ever nicer chat with two colleagues that I had e-mailed with but not yet 'really' had a good chat with. What a lovely evening.
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No, none. I'm so pleased, especially since I was a long way away from the structure.