Week 10: Look Again

This photo does not do the sunset justice but I promise it was breathtaking. So breathtaking that I spent a good forty-five minutes in a parking lot looking at it completely hypnotized. I just couldn’t stop staring at it. Look at those colors! I love how drawn I was to the pink and red, which I suppose are the warmest and smallest parts of the image but they was so vibrant that I couldn’t help it. I guess I do see warm colors first! Then when I stepped back, I was really amazed by the contrast between that bright center on the peeking horizon and the deep dark blues and purples that framed it. They seemed like two very opposing forces that shouldn’t be in the same image and yet here they were sucking me into another dimension (at least that’s how it felt). Then there is the soft yellow behind the clouds that links them beautifully. My absolute favorite part about this sunset — which is unfortunately not as obvious in the picture — is the small line of pink that outlines some of the clouds. On a first glance they are just purple and seem purely cold to me but when I look closer, there is this very warm, very thin frame that changes my perception of them. There is warmth beneath the cold, nothing is just one thing, everything has layers. My thoughts then wandered to reminding me to always give everything (situations, people etc.) more than one look because they are not always what they seem at a first glance.