Waiting for the sunset

Speaking of the circle of life and its capture, here is another circle.

In my previous post here I talked about the seasons. And today I'm going to talk about something much more often repeated. And you know what I discovered for myself about this process 😃

I told you that the repetitive things in life are boring to me. But here's one of the best examples of a recurring thing that I can't get enough of.

Sunsets.

Each season comes with its own characteristics, although the climate has changed so much in recent years. Yesterday, several close people had a birthday, and the topic we touched upon in our conversations was about what kind of snow and cold, terrible frost and sub-zero temperatures there have traditionally been on this exact day over the years.

This year on that day there was rain, relatively high temperatures and very strong winds.
Therefore - we cannot talk about boredom and repetition in climate and seasons for some time. So, there is no reason for boredom here.
And yet...
But the sunsets...

Do you know how many times I've told myself I'm not going to photograph the sunset tonight?
Well, it's just a sunset! Nothing more than another sunset. Which repeats itself over and over again. Which happens again and again. In the familiar objective-distanced way. Nothing personal, nothing emotional, nothing dramatic. The sunset is over there. It happens. Every day at the regular time. Nothing more.

But if that day I happen to see it... Even if I'm just out of the house at that time on some occasion and I happen to see it... I usually can't help myself.

Do you know how many photos of sunsets I have? And that's why I made this post, of course.
There was a period this summer when I even started doing a kind of conceptual photography, shooting the sunset every day from the same spot. There were amazing views. You know, the clouds, the main protagonists were divine, unique (well, every cloud, every sunset and every sky is unique every day - this has already been established by each of us). But those sunsets I'm talking about were something different.

But the ones I'm showing you now are no less wonderful, aren't they?

I don't know if there is a word that expresses the addiction to sunsets. Now that occurred to me. But there sure is, right? I don't fool myself just to justify my condition, right? 🤔 I hope so 😄

If this is not the case, things will look serious.🤭

Well, various unforeseen incidents balance things out. Like losing a lot of those photos taken back then...

But there are so many more sunsets to photograph.

I don't have to wait a whole year for sunset to come. As I wait for summer. All winter, I mean. Here I wait only a few hours, a day. I'm not even waiting. The sunset is not waited for, because it is clear that it will come. Every day at a specific time. Unlike the seasons. But when it is not clear whether a sunset will come or not - I think then the end of the world has already come.

Okay, that's another topic now.

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	Soul's Detour is a project started by me years ago when I had a blog about historical and not so popular tourist destinations in Eastern Belgium, West Germany and Luxembourg. Nowadays, this blog no longer exists, but I'm still here - passionate about architecture, art and mysteries and eager to share my discoveries and point of view with you.