A Spanish Sunset
Watching the sun go down over Marbella…
On my last evening in Spain I decided to take my camera down to the beach and catch a few rays of the late sun before heading home to a cold and wet England. I found a suitable boulder as a vantage point and let my mind drift for an hour after two long weeks checking up on our chefs in Switzerland and Spain.
A warm late afternoon can do wonders for the spirit, it felt like an English summer’s day as I watched the locals walk carefree along the beach as the sea water lapped up on the shore alongside them.
I thought about an old friend of mine who now lives in Spain and the summer’s we enjoyed years ago, sat outside pubs watching the girls without a care in the world. We used to drive to a seaside town on our day off in a beat up old Vauxhall, windows down with a tape cassette of jazz-funk to set the mood. I miss those days..
Here’s some music to watch a sunset to and here’s a sunset whilst you listen……
Marbella Sunset
I love watching the skies, the cloud formations and the setting sun combine to make wonderful scenery and this particular sky and sun came together to play its part for me and my camera. Many landscape shots you see in magazines and bookshops have often been heavily manipulated. I have done nothing other than resize the image for web format. What you see is exactly what I saw.
Miles,
Empty beach, sun setting…. just beautiful.
Cid
February 2, 2010 @ 11:01 pm
Cracking Gromit !
February 3, 2010 @ 8:47 am
Miles,
A beautiful sunset. “I miss those days”. It’s wonderful to have good memories. Go on making them.
Anne
February 3, 2010 @ 1:57 pm
All,
Thank you, if you live in England right now then I apologise
Miles
February 3, 2010 @ 10:11 pm
Lovely sunset, Miles!
Well, Nature/God made it and you captured it perfectly.
Strange question, but as a photographer, do you ever wonder conceptually about “capturing” scenes? On the one hand you make semi-permanent the beauty around you. On the other, sometimes photos have a negative or non-positive energy to them - like when a protrait reveals something strange or hidden about someone you thought you knew. . .
Did you ever experience this, or is it just me?
L
February 4, 2010 @ 3:20 am
Laura,
Thank you, a great comment. That’s a good question and funnily enough something I was thinking about whilst I was sat on that beach. I was thinking about how I would like to take a closer look at conservation issues when I got back to the UK and write about it on here. Nothing scientific but more of a ‘layman’s’ view if you will.
As I sat there I noticed a plastic bottle wedged under a rock at the side of the path. I looked at it and the scenery beyond and, not for the first time wondered why anyone could leave rubbish in a place of such beauty.
I photographed the scene and last night downloaded the photos. I thought about that bottle again and how someone else would say ‘photoshop it out’ but I haven’t. Because to me it shows the negative in what, at first glance is a positive.
My ultimate ambition is to photograph a subject which provokes thought in others rather than just a simple ‘oh, that’s nice’. A lot easier said than done.
I’ll put that photograph up later….
Thanks Laura
Miles
February 4, 2010 @ 8:58 am