Saturday 5 March 2011

An Almost Cloudless Sunset


Last night, I could see the setting sun through gaps in the field hedge. Huge, round and red, it was sinking down through a sky almost clear of cloud. I climbed the five bar gate and crossed to the hill top, to watch the sun set behind a tree-lined ridge on the western edge of Forest heathland. A glowing sky, a slight haze and a strange mark, like a phantom sun shadow, on each photograph. I expect I need to clean my lens.........












6 comments:

WOL said...

That last one looks like an abstract painting, a rather nice one, actually. One I wouldn't mind hanging in my house. I think I like the third of the sunset pictures best.

The Weaver of Grass said...

Lovely photos but it still has a chilly look doesn't it.

Lucille said...

I never tire of sunsets. What a great setting! (Well spotted by the way, but what about the Rye and the Poole and the... I think you're right about rotating.)

Crafty Green Poet said...

what a lovely series of photos,

The Wessex Reiver said...

Those sunset shots are fabulous and could almost be mistaken for the height of summer, those lazy days and long sunsets of June.

Morning's Minion said...

There was a strange ring around the sun here on Thursday afternoon, a day which turned out to be a harbinger of wind and rain. The sun was shining through cloud and a wide circle showed about half the colors of a rainbow, almost as though they had been drawn in and then smudged.