and Still More Sunsets... (part two)

What can I say? Living here we seem to get some beautiful sunsets and since we live about two minutes from the top of a mountain that allows a great vantage point, you get to see lots of sunsets.

In these shots, my back was to the setting sun so it made for a different glow in the sky, as opposed to shooting directly a the sunset.

The View from the Gamesroom

In our building we have a Gamesroom on the second floor. You can shoot some pool, play cards or catch another one of our glorious sunsets that we have been having lately!

and STill More Sunsets...

Yesterday (when I got slimed by seaweed) we had a beautiful sunset.

Just for the record, I did not photoshop or alter the first five photos. This is really how it looked! I did not use any filters either. The only thing that I did while shooting was to try different settings to see how the different settings would change how the photo looked once shot.

The sunset was very orange and fire-y and had beautiful reflections on the water.

Enjoy!
The snow capped mountains on the Washington State side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Totally unaltered!

OK. This is the one shot that I did alter the colours. While it may not look totally natural, I do like the contrast of the colours (the blur around the edges is from my forgetting to reomove the macro lens-I think it's a neat mistake).

Dallas Rd. Sunset

On Thursday evening we went out for a walk to enjoy one of the rare non-rainy, West-Coast days. While walking, we caught one of those almost blood-red sunsets and I finally got to try out my wide-angle lens (I think I need more practice with it though...). The picture has a bit of graininess to it but if anyone asks I think that I'll say that's the style I was going for...