Dorset Landscape Photography: Winter Solstice over Hive Beach
21st December 2011
Dorset Landscape Photography
Winter Solstice over Hive Beach
Today was the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year. Sunrise this morning was dull and cloudy and at the end of the afternoon, there were still many clouds around and the sky still looked a little dull.
As I looked out at sunset to see what was happening, the sky was slowly clearing of its low lying cloud leaving the higher cloud exposed. The sun was setting behind some low level clouds on the horizon and I decided to wait and see what happened.
As the minutes went by the clouds behind me started to show some colour and as the time ticked on the colour rolled across the sky towards the horizon.
The colours were magnificent and the sky held its colour for over an hour, always changing with the clouds rolling across it. This was from about 20 minutes after sunset and is pretty much straight from the camera. The colours don't need any saturating or enhancement of any kind. It was a glorious sunset.
Happy Christmas to everyone out there. Thanks for your kind comments over recent months and I hope you take some great images over the holidays! See you in 2012.
Winter Solstice over Hive Beach
Today was the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year. Sunrise this morning was dull and cloudy and at the end of the afternoon, there were still many clouds around and the sky still looked a little dull.
As I looked out at sunset to see what was happening, the sky was slowly clearing of its low lying cloud leaving the higher cloud exposed. The sun was setting behind some low level clouds on the horizon and I decided to wait and see what happened.
As the minutes went by the clouds behind me started to show some colour and as the time ticked on the colour rolled across the sky towards the horizon.
The colours were magnificent and the sky held its colour for over an hour, always changing with the clouds rolling across it. This was from about 20 minutes after sunset and is pretty much straight from the camera. The colours don't need any saturating or enhancement of any kind. It was a glorious sunset.
Happy Christmas to everyone out there. Thanks for your kind comments over recent months and I hope you take some great images over the holidays! See you in 2012.