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Sunset in the Grand Canyon as seen from Mohave Point.
I love the slightly hazy conditions in the canyon giving all the cool sun rays.
Rays of light over the sea.
Feel the magic atmosphere...
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Ray was standing on the Madison Street exit on the expressway. It was 15 degrees and the wind was blowing straight into his face. He's been out here for an hour today. "I just want to make enough money to get a room tonight" (it will be below zero tonight). His biggest need he reiterated numerous times--"I need a place to stay". He also needs a bus card to get around the city. He usually sleeps on the train. A man of few words, but doing what he had to, to survive.
Sunset from last year over the local reservoir, the sun just caught the gap in the passing cloud at the right time to give off the rays & shadows.
A friend of mine, Ray is a tenor sax player who studied under Jackie McLean. He definitely sounds like Jackie at times, and melodious like Sonny Rollins. He now lives in Japan, playing in Tokyo and is beginning to really establish himself. He's played for the up and coming singer Tiffany ( www.tiffany-vocal.com ) on two Sony label albums (with Hank Jones, Omar Hakim, Terumasa Hino).
He is visiting home now and had a show Friday night...I had to skip work and see him play. He sounded great, playing some of his originals. I am really happy for him, and hope he continues to shine. My wife says, "Ray has an angel." I believe it.
It's so unfair - poor Ray always seems to get second best but in truth we spoil all our cats. Ray could use the cat flap but chooses to stay outside. Pixie just wants to be number one and she does seem to gloat when she gets the best spot to sit.
Sunsetting behind a bank of clouds off the coast of Jamaica
Ray LaMontagne
World Cafe Life - Free At Noon
Philadelphia
20 August 2010
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Sunset Uplight ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Spring 2018 ~ Palm Beach County ~ 4/4/18
(six more photos 'from this night' in the comments)
Crepuscular rays (more commonly known as sunbeams, sun rays,
or god rays), in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight. Their apparent convergence is a perspective effect, similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance.
The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the
Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight.
Standing near Over Owler Tor, waiting for the right light on another shot looking towards Hathersage, I turned round and saw this, so had to work quickly and use a telephoto to zoom in. Maybe I'm being too picky, but the shafts of light didn't quite come out as well as I had hoped for and looked much more pronounced in real life. But the sky turned out well, with the use of a graduated ND filter to darken the clouds. With a bit of tweaking in the processing, I am now really happy with it.
Cross Rays
I was so fortunate to photograph in some ridiculously good conditions on The Great Ocean Road last week.
My wife's comment about this photo was "That looks like a photo from one of those photo tours...you know how they always get really good shots." Thanks dear!
Canon 5D Mark II
17-40 @ 17mm f16 8sec
Lee 0.6 soft grad
Sunset ~ Summer 2017 ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Broward County ~ Hometown ~ Coral Springs, Florida
(four more photos 'from this night' in the comments)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Springs,_Florida
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades
"Summer Breeze" - Seals and Crofts - 1972
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsW8rXPcnM0 (studio)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEF470mXqU4 (Live)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Breeze_%28song%29
Group Cover Photo - Drawing in Clouds Group - Sept. 2017
The storm had slowly dissipated to what looked like a mostly disappointing sunset. Then for about 30 seconds the sun burst through into these incredible orange rays that bathed the mountains. This shot was taken from Wild Horse Mountain overlooking the Glass House Mountains.
This is at the entrance to an offshoot of the main trail at Elk Head, in Trinidad. I really like the prevalence of the light in this picture. It made cool rays, thus the title.
I would have liked to take this with a shorter lens, but the only one I have with VR is the 70-200 and I forgot my tripod in the car, so this is actually about 50 feet back from the opening, right where the trail started to turn.