It is my regular schedule to go home to the province during weekends, sometimes every other week or at the least is once a month. Long weekends are wonderful allowing me to breath fresh air longer. The big city air, where i am staying most of the time is already so heavy with air pollutants. It is a public knowledge that pollutants make sunsets more beautiful, but definitely it is not good for my lungs. I wont trade in the fresh air for magical sunsets, for whatever magic they might seem like.
I can always go back to our old home for these sunsets too, and sunrises as well. Since we are in the uplands, it is overlooking a bay, where the sunrises are. These photos are in that direction, the east, so why are the sunset colors there! I call this phenomenon as anti-sunset. I can view sunset photos in the east! Isn't that GREAT!
Our west has a range, actually just a hill but it can still cover much of the sunset colors. They are not as spectacular as when the horizon is fully visible. The following photos are shot at this area, the WEST, at the top of the trees.
...but this is also from the EAST, a waxing moon that same afternoon, shot after most of the bright colors faded.
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That's the benefit of having a province close to the city, you're there after a few hours of travel and can even come back to the city on the same day.
ReplyDeleteAnother plus factor in your case is your close proximity to the ocean, great view, fresh air, open space. And since you live in an upland you're safe from tsunamis :) Now that's a real blessing.
I too would retreat to my province at the end of the week if only mine is as close to the city as yours.
nice sunset!
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Beautiful sunset.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Andrea, like I said on my blog, you are a master of great skies.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful sunsets - but I love the last picture!
ReplyDeleteYou have such beautiful sunsets! Great photos.
ReplyDeleteVery nice sky! I love sunset like this :-D Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeletei envy you--there's beauty every where you look. i wish my hometown is just a bus ride away.:p
ReplyDeleteSR - even if our area seems near MM, i still can't come back in one day. It seems to be at the dead end, however in these times of calamities and pollution from development, i really think we are blessed to have been living in that place. It is so different to still see fireflies, hear the cicadas early at 9am even if it's a bit irritating, watch some monitor lizard and toads after the rains. We only appreciate these things after living in so called 'developed places'.
ReplyDeleteJo - thanks, am i making you more homesick?
Missy -thanks for dropping by again.
Donna of GWGT - haha, thank you very much but that is an extreme superlative adjective to say about my skies! I hope i can show you better!
Holley Garden - oh you really like the moon photo! thanks.
Byddi - yes we really have wonderful sunsets...and sunrises too! It is just that i don't go out often to shoot them!
Stephanie - thanks, may you have a great weekend too, and lots of photos for next week.
Luna Miranda - our place is not just a bus stop away, it is a jeep+a bus+ a jeep + tricycle. hahaha! Where is yours?
Another set of amazing skies. Thanks for sharing since many of us don't get to enjoy such beautiful skies.
ReplyDeleteWe apparently have lots of pollutants in our air as well, because our sunsets have been amazing too. Thanks for sharing scenes from you beautiful part of the world.
ReplyDeleteAh-h...beautiful! Your sunsets are lovely...breathtaking! Enjoy your retreat!
ReplyDeleteHi Andrea, It is magical the ways in which the setting sun can illuminate clouds. I especially like your second image.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, very stunning! I imagine it was a thousand times more beautiful in person. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWow! What a gorgeous series of sky shots
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and I too do not wish for beautiful sunsets caused by pollution. It would then look like the sky is flushing with anger. I look forward to your trips back home because your province is very picturesque.
ReplyDeleteThe orange sky in the fourth shot with the long view is magnificent, Andrea! Stunning sunsets can be seen everywhere in the Philippines, and I too would not trade pollution-drama skies with the fresh air of the country. One more week and I'll be home.
ReplyDeleteOh, city dwellers are compensated with stunning sunsets to offset their polluted air. Countrysides are blessed with green and green. With coconuts reaching the sky, the view is very much like ours.... cantik! (beautiful!)
ReplyDeleteStunning sunsets!
ReplyDeleteThe photos are amazing. I especially love the moon. The colors are breathtaking on all of your pictures. If I lived there, I'd be sleeping under the stars!
ReplyDeletemy geologist brother-in-law told me once that the red in the sunset is from iron boxite. Whatever that info means. lol
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