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The Return of a Half-Forgotten Sunset

6/10/2020

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I happened to be browsing through the photo gallery on my iPad today, and I came across a sunset I had photographed back in February. At first, I couldn't recall taking the photograph, but after a few seconds it all came back to me.

​I had just come home from work and was about to enter the house when I looked to the west just beyond the chicken coop - still a dilapidated ruin back then - and noticed the warm light of a sunken sunset as it painted captivating mauve and pink hues onto the clouds. The scene, or more specifically, the quality of light, reminded me of a Mednyánszky painting, so I dug into my backpack, withdrew my iPad, and took a snapshot.
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I studied the photo for about a half-an-hour later that evening and spent some time comparing the light I had captured to the quality of light the Wandering Baron so masterfully recreated in so many of his landscapes. 
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I remember feeling distinctly happy for many hours afterward. Oddly enough, seeing the photo again now has provided a few more hours of warm contentment.

It's amazing what a little light and color can do. It really is.  
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bruce charlton
6/10/2020 22:38:00

That's a lovely sky - and also very unusual.

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Francis Berger
6/11/2020 06:18:18

@ Bruce - I think cloud formation has a lot to do with it, but the quality of light in this part of the world also seems somewhat unique (I know this is essentially nonsense, but I get that feeling sometimes).

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