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Great pics gentlemen ...

I'm sure I've posted this before but it suits the theme of first light/last light. Special effects added by a camera phone struggling with low light.

cheers for sharing, snappers. piercing land of the rising sun pic @zen..
@old-dog, I assumed the gulls pics were among your vintage shots.. but must me newer, yeh? that's how acclimatised I've become to the drone world (unless you hired a chopper back in the day, haha).

Kimberley sunset last year. No photoshop.

Woah Wally- kaboom! That's a cracker.

seeds wrote:

I love it when the purple kicks in. Doesn’t happen all that often, it more so fades to grey mostly.

I have a feeling I might have put this one up before. Gold fish memory perhaps.

I used to surf occasionally with an ex art director at Satchi & Satchi. One morning we were having coffee and waiting for the sunrise and he started getting excited just as first light appeared. He spent 10 mins as the sun started to come up pointing out colours and various other interesting stuff in the light as it came.
90% of what he showed me I had never seen before even though I had seen many similar sunrises. Purple especially was a highlight and from then on I have never watched a sunrise the same. It really is magic and wonder.

Because our coast faces west and the sun sets over the sea, we get all these Euro tourists waiting to see the mythical green flash as the sun disappears. I can see the sun set every night from my balcony, but I've never seen it.

We get diatom congregations around this time of year and when you walk on the beach just as the last light fades you get electric blue flashes as you tread on the wet sand. If there is a gentle shore break you blue explosions along the sand line. Not quite your green flash but cool none the less.

The mythical green flash is up there with drop bears as a story for the tourists.

I've seen both along with the Nannup tiger

Roadkill wrote:

seeds wrote:

I love it when the purple kicks in. Doesn’t happen all that often, it more so fades to grey mostly.

I have a feeling I might have put this one up before. Gold fish memory perhaps.

I used to surf occasionally with an ex art director at Satchi & Satchi. One morning we were having coffee and waiting for the sunrise and he started getting excited just as first light appeared. He spent 10 mins as the sun started to come up pointing out colours and various other interesting stuff in the light as it came.
90% of what he showed me I had never seen before even though I had seen many similar sunrises. Purple especially was a highlight and from then on I have never watched a sunrise the same. It really is magic and wonder.

“ You used to surf with an ex art director at
Satchi and Satchi “
Never heard of it
Is that like a peak where you can go left or right , but have to yell out Satchi if you’re
going either left or right, , ?

One of the biggest advertising companies in the world.

old-dog wrote:

Because our coast faces west and the sun sets over the sea, we get all these Euro tourists waiting to see the mythical green flash as the sun disappears. I can see the sun set every night from my balcony, but I've never seen it.

Old- Dog. Hi mate.
It sure does exist.
I’ve seen it plenty of times.
The earths atmosphere bends light from the sun and the wavelength that produces the Green light is very short thus enabling us to see it for 1-2 seconds before the suns light disappears below the horizon. AW

old-dog wrote:

Because our coast faces west and the sun sets over the sea, we get all these Euro tourists waiting to see the mythical green flash as the sun disappears. I can see the sun set every night from my balcony, but I've never seen it.

that was number 2 on our list @old-dog, upon deciding to abandon the gulf as our primary residence to start a family. My lovely partner and I made a list of things we'd miss: 'southern ocean is the cleanest ocean in the word, but the gulfs have vast west-facing sunsets' was right there after 'central market'.

Hi AW, I read that Jules Verne was captivated by the green flash and wrote a novel about it. Le Rayon Vert. It was said that if you saw it, you got a heightened perception and were able to fully understand yours and others feelings. In the novel a young couple go searching for it across Scotland.
Apparently, it's a pretty rare spectacle, needing certain atmospheric conditions, if you blink you may miss it and airline pilots flying west over ocean are most likely to see it. I gave up looking for it. Cheers.