"It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill, Which then seems as if the whole earth is bounded, Circling all nature, hush'd, and dim, and still, With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill Upon the other, and the rosy sky With one star sparkling through it like an eye."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 183)
* slipped in a sunrise
Has it been a full month since my eyes last beheld such magnificent art? Sad, but true.
Photographs are wonderful contrivances of our modern era, but hollow substitutes for the real bounty of nature in her finest moments.
*These were taken with my ancient, old-fashioned 35mm Canon AE, with Fuji Velvia slidefilm. Click for slightly larger images.
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