Colorchallenge for Indigo Saturday:

“An Indigo Alaskan Sunset”,

If you have had the good fortune of travelling to the Pacific Northwest, the bright sustaining colourful sunsets are imprinted deeply inside your soul. As most people journey up to these parts of the world during fairer weather times, late spring as early as March to early autumn, the opportunities to catch a glimpse of long lasting sunrises and sunsets is offered to you as the angle of our Mother Earth allows for the light to span its rays for a much longer time than it would at the Equator, for instance.

_{("An Indigo Alaskan Sunset", photography by Hive account@eric-boucher, using a Canon PowerShot SX60 HS, ISO 640, f 5.6, 1/100, June 19th, 2015.)}

The magic of the spectacle defies your eyes as well as your intellect trying to grasp onto the slow movement of the colours as they shift from one to another. If you happen to move your eyes ever slightly, the colour focussed on quickly takes a wider stance among the others and plays tricks with your mind making one wonder… Is it an illusion? Are the colours really changing?? Am I simply loosing it??? Many shake their heads when faced with this conundrum.

Far from the typical sunset, this one offers perspective hard to come across. as I stand on a wide open beach at the northeastern end of Haida Gwaii’s Naikoon Provincial Park, Alaskan islands lay sparse across the northern horizon just far enough to allow for the sun rays to divide over them and cast their bright and colourful characteristics up in the low travelling clouds layered and spinning above the Pacific Ocean and remote islands of the Alaskan Pan-Handle.

In the forefront, the kelp marks the tideline. The sands, still moist with the retreating tide over the very low angled shore, are mirroring the sky’s fireworks and movements in its undulating ripples…