While learning about photography, you find a ton of information. Technical details, composition rules, what to do, what to don't, and slowly you get familiar with a couple of terms and names.
One that intrigued me in particular was the "golden hour".
The magical and effervescent moment right before the sunset when the sun rays are reaching the earth at a lower angle and it covers a longer distance through our atmosphere, and everything around becomes golden and slowly as the rays are further and further away the sky gets purple and then only darkness remains.
Somehow that's how the theory sounds, at least how I remember it, but at first when I was struggling with ISO and shutter speed, convinced that the "M" Mode is the way and anything else in between is a blasphemy (silly, I know) for me it was just the "Golden Hour", and I knew that going out during that time frame my pictures will look better.
Of course, shooting at sunset is not enough, but the learning curve needs to take us through all the possible stages and, ideally, we learn constantly.
On that optimistic note, I'll end today's story with a couple of 2011 sunsets.
I wish you all a great weekend and, as always, thank you for stopping by!