A good desert sunset was a rarity, best I can recall, but every now and then a cloud formation would be in the right place to produce something special, such as that in today’s photo.
Tag Archives: Sunset I spent a fair bunch of time trying to title today’s photo before settling on ‘approaching sunset’. This was taken somewhere in western Libya in the first half of 1990. 
[...] photo is a view about 135° anti-clockwise from yesterday’s. It’s of a recording flycamp in western Libya in [...]  I titled this shot ‘Blackfin Sundowners’ for somewhat obvious reasons – the prominent Blackfin on the sail of the largest boat and the fact that the sun is setting.  Three school girls heading home somewhere near Kota Kinabalu. From the shadows it’s clearly close to sunset as these thee girls pick their way along the shoreline at the base of the cliff.  So here’s the last of the Mount Kinabalu sunset series. The sun has now slipped below the horizon, it’s passing marked by the display of yellow, orange and red in the sky.  Here’s the third in my series of four sunset images from Laban Rata, Mount Kinabalu, taken during my trek up the mountain in August 1989.  In the mid-ground you can clearly make out the coastline at Kota Kinabalu, some 37 miles (60 km) distant from Laban Rata on Mount Kinabalu.  In this shot, the sun hangs just above the horizon of the South China Sea. About a quarter of the way up the frame you can make out the coast at Kota Kinabalu which is 37 miles (60 km) distant from where I was on Mount Kinabalu at Laban Rata.
[...] I mentioned yesterday, I’m posting a series of four shots of the sunset I took from Laban Rata on Mount [...]
[...] way up the image. Just above and to the right of the resthouse is the helipad from where I took the sunset photos the night [...]
[...] Kinabalu for Hong Kong. It represent such a change of pace from just a two days earlier when I was watching the sunset from 40 miles away from the resthouse at Laban [...]  In the photo below a fellow traveler is capturing the sun setting into the South China Sea as we watched from the helipad at Laban Rata. The humidity hangs in the valleys in a purple haze. Just below the sun you can make out the coastline. It was strange for me to think that 48…
[...] I posted an image of a fellow trekker photographing the sunset from Laban Rata on Mount [...]  Our suite on the 15th floor had great views to the west but there were some downsides to the hotel. It’s just across the freeway from Miami International Airport so depending on the direction of the traffic you can be kept awake by aircraft noise. The other downside is that without a car you’re captive – there’s nothing within walking distance of the hotel. |
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by Richard Davis