Week 2: The not so typical sunset

       Last weekend my friends and I had the great idea of doing a bonfire in Corona del Mar! We arrived to the beach around 6:45pm and this is what we saw, we each broke out all our iPhones and DSLR cameras quickly to make sure we could try and pass on a glimpse of this beauty to everyone we knew. We each took as many pictures as fast as we could for fear that it would slowly fade away and leave us in disappointment. I have seen so many “typical beautiful sunsets” but none like this before. Never have I before seen such a cluster of colors formed into one big “picture”. It almost seemed like one of those fake cheesy sunset settings displayed on a computer screen but it was complete opposite and absolutely real. The sky was easily “gasp” worthy because of all the bright intense colors that were all meshed into one large setting. It’s like a ripple of color, shifting from this yellowish-orange bright color in the middle much like a fireball, it’s almost as if the sun completely faded out into this huge set of orange-yellow color to create this fireball. It them fades into a light pink fixture and finally to the last ripple of a blended purple. I feel like it could easily be related to a burning fire in the center that slowly gives up and fades into a diminishing pink and then into a purple smokey haze. The sky fades from one color to the next, in a circle-type motion. One of the coolest effects in this picture is the way the sky reflects onto the water. The pink takes up most of the water but at the edge of the picture the purple reflection begins. There’s such a huge shift of color in this picture and yet it all blends so well together creating a not so typical sunset of color that is completely amazing.  

       The night I took this picture my instagram was filled with several pictures from this same sunset (from all the pictures posted by my friends) but every picture seemed different in their own way because no two locations looked the same. Even though the sunset was the same sunset, each picture told a new story that was worth telling, which is why I decided that it was necessary to make sure that I could share my picture and my perception about it to everyone too.