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.........
Without bush or tree
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The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon
& if the sun looks through tis with a face
Beamless & pale & round as if the moon
When done the journey of...
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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.
Lovely photos but it still has a chilly look doesn't it.
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.)
what a lovely series of photos,
Those sunset shots are fabulous and could almost be mistaken for the height of summer, those lazy days and long sunsets of June.
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.
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