I didn't think I'd be doing the whole 'image dump of sunsets' thing again so soon, but... well, then this evening happened and I felt I just had to share the end results of leaning out the window in a bathrobe cursing the day I decided that I liked taking photographs on the evening it occurred. I changed out of the bathrobe as soon as was humanly possible, but... yeah. It happened. I am not proud, but all art is a hard taskmistress, even if it is only art in that the end result is a vaguely pretty picture of some clouds.

The deal? It was just that pretty out there this evening. Not something I was expecting, given that from my point of view it was mostly clusters of dull gray clouds and a vague hint of watery pastel sky behind them. My little Kodak begged to differ.

So, today's set of photos were all... well, taken today, over the course of about an hour or so this evening just after I finished washing yuck out of my hair and rereading the opening chapters of The Little Sister in the tub, having finally finished that biography of Marie Antoinette and wanting to read something a little less heavy before turning my attention to the stack of stuff I've got to read to stop The Book from screaming at me for being woefully historically inaccurate and/or knowing nothing about Finn Mac Cumhail that I didn't get from Finn McCool and the Small Men of Deeds (recommended reading age: 7-10 years, if that). It's a really good thing I like social and political history given how much of it I'm going to have to down before I can even make a start on the largely pointless (if amusing) getting-to-know-you short stories I want to write just to get a feel for my characters and the world that they live in, but I digress - and digress quite wildly at that.

To drag myself forcefully back on topic, I was originally just going to take a couple of pictures and leave it at that, but there was just something about the fruits of this evening's point-and-click labors that demanded far more attention than that...


The weird thing is that to the naked eye the sunset was nowhere near that interesting-looking this evening in terms of color - there was just a lot of gray and some very dull sky behind it. My camera lies, but lies so very prettily I don't actually care that much.

And finally, here are a couple of other pictures of sunsets what I took a little earlier and which are totally unrelated, but I feel should be up here anyway to save me forgetting about them. Since I'm here and I'm doing the whole ooh-look-at-the-pretty-clouds-and-colors thing again, I figure they might as well be here too - albeit, in an unusual display of restraint on my part, tucked away behind a cut, though this is mainly because they mess up the whole look what the sky did this evening theme I have going on. Again, I believe there is some kind of vague chronology going on here as these were the order they were saved on my camera, so that pretty much must mean that's the order I took them in.

( But I still like them. )

What a filler!

Now watch me make a habit of posting random photographs of pretty shiny things simply because it allows me to make cheap and dirty updates. Sorry, I should have warned you guys I liked photography as well. Next time at least I'll do some of the buildings, I promise.