db wrote on Oct 19^th, 2022 at 8:58pm:


Funny thing you should bring this up right after this particular pic.  I struggled with the question of whether it was sunrise or sunset, too... which is why I avoided referencing EITHER one!  I was leaning toward sunrise for precisely the reason that Solus mentioned, more BLUE in the sky.  However, clearly that wasn't the case with this POD since KyPaddler revealed it to be otherwise.

OS, at this very moment I'm facing east but, for some strange reason, it's not helping me much in solving this problem.       Maybe I should reorient my laptop to the North?   

Later,

Jimbo   

Y'all are making me look at that sunset photograph in a whole new light (pun acknowledged but not intended). It certainly COULD be a sunrise, I think.

In person, I always perceive a different slant to the sun's rays in the evening, one that evokes nostalgia and, if not "doom" per se, at least a wariness. The coming darkness, I guess. Especially in autumn. And while the temperature might be exactly the same, the sunrise has a frostiness to it that seems more superficial, while the evening chill seems more invasive, like it's probing ways to dig into your bones.

(Not sure I'm explaining that well enough, and maybe I'm overthinking it, but sunsets just "feel" different.)

-- kypaddler

We have a photograph from our Celebration Canoe Trip that was a favorite of my husband's, although not particularly of mine.  It is a reflection shot (I take a lot of those), but a bit unusual.  I decided to have a canvas made of this image for above our mantel, and when it arrived, the people who put the hanging wire on the back had it installed upside down!   We got quite a kick out of that.  I guess most people expect the sky to be at the top of the photograph, though.   

"If all they got from it was the development of an awareness of what was going on around them then it achieved what they needed."

Norman Black

portage dog wrote on Oct 25^th, 2022 at 11:29pm:
YES