Day 68 ... BFFs

BFFs

I think watching the sunset on a beach would have to be one of the best moments in life.  I know I said I wasn't going to make my trip to Florida be all about sunsets, and I truly want to stretch my imagination and do something that isn't easy or ordinary, but the sunsets really are beautiful here, and it's been difficult for me to bring my camera out on the beach during the day when I knew sand would be flying all around us.  

So for now, enjoy the sunsets!  

This one was taken no Siesta Key at Siesta Beach which is a gorgeous white sugar sand beach with pale aqua colored water.  If I hadn't gotten such a late start, the day photo opps might have been better, and in the next day or two, I'm going to try harder to get a day shot of the bleached out beach.

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Day 67...Wave Runners

WAVE RUNNERS

I love a sunset.  I love the Golden Hour and Blue Hour.  Seems like I kind of captured all of that in this one shot.

As you can see, I've moved from winter, if only for a week.  We made it to the beach just in time to watch the sun go down.  I will try not to make every shot for the next five days be sunset shots, but I've said it before....I love the sunset and intend to see it EVERY night this week and I intend to see it near sand and water.  

But I will try to give variety!

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Day 32...Sunset Over the Lake

SUNSET OVER THE LAKE

I've said it before, and many know this about me, I'd chase the sun and watch it set every day if I could.  Tonight I had already taken my photo of the day, but as I set off for an outing for the evening, the sun caught my attention on the way to my destination.  I chased her down.

I do this kind of thing often.  I drive and drive until I find a safe spot to stop and get out of my car or stick my camera out the window.  I'm sure lots of photographers do this!  And tonight was frustrating because the sunset was completely phenomenal, and I just could manage to position myself in a place to capture its complete magnificence.  

I do think this photo ended up pretty good though.  The lake was frozen and blanketed with a fluffy white and it was just an typical Minnesota winter sunset and pretty as ever.

I know some people could care less about a sunset, and some people think they just get old after a while.  For me, I just can't seem to get enough of them.

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Day 29...A HOLY PLACE

A HOLY PLACE

Whenever I see this building, I feel like I've been transported out of this country and straight to the Ukraine.  It's so beautiful.  It really is another one of those places I had never noticed until recently, and then suddenly out of the corner of my eye while driving I saw it.  I didn't photograph it the first time I saw it.  I planned this evening so I would arrived at this spot right at sunset.  

This building is surrounded by a lot of trees, so it was pretty difficult to get a good shot of the domes and the sky without a lot of distracting flora.  I am going to go back again sometime when the sky is different.  I think the silouhette of it is amazing and completely beautiful.

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Day 13...Cotton Candy Sky

COTTON CANDY SKY

Tonight, the Universe handed me this!  Oh, yes, the beautiful sky that I love so much.  I am always intrigued at how fleeting these moments are.  You could sit for 10 minutes catching the sun going down, and if you just shoot every minute or so, you will surely have a different shot every time with the movement of the clouds and the sinking of the sun.

In this particular scene, I love how there are shades of pink at the top and the middle section is like a gold explosion and trailing on the left is the hint of the midnight to come.  Of course, with the added bonus of a silouhette of trees, it's truly beautiful.  It never ceases to amaze me how the sky always looks like someones out there flinging a paint brush around.  

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Day 8 ... Part 2, One of My Favorite Views, in Gold

ONE OF MY FAVORITE VIEWS, in Gold

The same view of my first Day 8 post a few hours later.  I knew it was going to be a nice sunset, so I stopped by the bridge for another try.  Stood in basically the same spot, and this is what I got.  BONUS SHOT!

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Day 7...The Sky in My World

THE SKY IN MY WORLD

I'm fascinated by the sky.  I love the clouds.  I love the sunrise and the sunset, Golden Hour or Blue Hour.  I've taken hundreds and hundreds of photos of the sky during sunrise and sunset and previous to storms or after storms or on just fair-weather days where there are puffy white clouds and bright blue sky.   So today, I was so excited when I walked out of work and this is what the Universe gave me!

It wasn't quite sunset, but you can see it was coming near, and I imagine if I had waited for another 20 minutes, the colors would have been just as wonderful in a different shade.

Sometimes I feel limited in my ability to capture the sky because in Minnesota, we don't have "big sky."  But if you look hard enough, and frame well, you can get the sky in with objects around, like this gorgeous church, and it's beautiful.

This shot is of the Downtown St. Paul sky and Assumption Catholic Church.