The almost unquenchable final embers of an oceanic sunset.

18/01/2009

As has been a running theme through this summer, another sunset image from Bennion Beach.  By fast my favourite beach in Perth’s northern beaches, its isolation from the rest of the coast and even the city; plunged down a cliff, make it an isolated place in a sea of suburbia.

If one were literally pan up from the scene presented in yesterday’s photo, one would have happily been presented with this view, though one would also be seeing white orbs for about half an hour afterwards!

18/01/2009

A sullen afternoon looking up from Bennion Beach towards the street.

18/01/2009

Crepuscular rays would have to be one of my favourite sky artifacts.  Regards of your religious or spiritual persuasions, when such a display is taking place before your eyes, you can’t help but be moved by the vision of light streaming through and ‘touching down’.  I love nothing more than to watch gaps in the cloud stream over the ocean in winter revealing patches of silver light on the ocean.

In an image not amiss with the ‘summer’ weather of today, more cloudscapes from above Bennion Beach.

A stormy (albeit some what of a let down) looking afternoon above Bennion Beach renders the sky with a mixture of low and high cloud.

The earth holds her breath for one drawn out moment as day switches to night.

A study of sun past the horizon lit clouds shows the contrast of those still in the sun’s path to those now overlooked.  I’ve always loved how if you glance at the view of an equally lit sky, your mind can almost believe that the clouds are mountains, or the sky some sort of sea on a shoreline of cloud.  Only through familiarity do we associate clouds with the sky.

After the dusk, the sentinels of the night prepare to light a path.