Post-Photographic, or Photographic Post

Coronado, California

It’s hard not to take pictures of lovely sunsets, no matter how cliché we know they are. And after seeing Penelope Umbrico’s post photographic 5,377,183 Suns (from Sunsets) from Flickr (Partial) 4/28/09, it’s that much harder. But I also like to photograph people in the act of photographing the sunset, like the one below where the subject is trying to catch the sinking sun in his hand.

English Dusk

A little over 12 years ago, on a wintery February day, I last took the EuroStar to Paris. Some may remember landscapes I posted from that trip, where I deliberately kept the shutter speed slower to bring some motion blur into the images, yielding a soft, impressionistic effect. This time, the EuroStar pictures were taken on the English side under a vibrant sunset hour. Click any image to see them all full-sized.