I hope that my many, many sunset pictures don’t come across like the 99th verse of “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.” It's just that I am entirely awestruck each time we are given a glorious sunset and I want to share it with you, even if it is from the same vantage point week after week.
Steve mistakenly called my sunset obsession a “phase.” Ha! Capturing the colors of the evening sun is not a phase or an activity inspired only by the Alaskan landscape.
In high school I would race through our house to locate Mom’s camera, dash out to the patio and take an entire role pictures of the sinking sun. This end-of-the-day scenario continued where ever I had a good view…California, Salzburg, Japan, the roof of my apartment building in New York City and now Alaska.
On a clear evening when the sun is setting, while chopping veggies or stirring soup, I monitor the view to see if the colors will come. When they do, I stop mid-cut...mid-stir, grab my camera, run up the stairs, lean precariously out of my second story window and click away until the sky turns black.
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