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Sunrises and Sunsets

Dani7

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CF 2023 from Bayonne.
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Early mornings are my favourite time of day. With the sun to the east and pilgrims walking westerly, I can’t begin to say how many times I would turn around to appreciate the sunrises…and sunsets are such a peaceful time of day. Please share your glorious camino pictures of sunrises and sunsets.

Leaving Najera May 3rd 2023
 

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Three of each from me:

Sunrises:
1. The church of São João da Ventosa (‘St John of the Winds’ or similar) in the corn fields outside Azinhaga, Portugal - CP.
2. Sunrise in Olvera on the Vía Serrana.
3. Sunrise over the church in Mértola, one of my favourite towns on the Caminho Nascente. Inside the church there are vestiges of a mihrab from its previous incarnation as a mosque - the only known remains of a medieval mosque in Portugal.



Sunsets:
1. Hórreos (Galician grain storage units) at sunset in Areal - CP.
2. Sunset at Vila Chã, Portugal - CP coastal/litoral.
3. Sunset over the 5th-century BC Temple of Juno (Hera) at Agrigento - Sicily, Italy - Magna Via Francigena.

 
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I am absolutely gobsmacked with the incredible photos taken during your Caminos. Thank all of you SO much for posting. Keep it coming community unreal …
 
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What a nice "picture" thread, @Dani7, and
I am absolutely loving everyone's photos!

Here are a several sunsets from the Tuscany region on the Via Francigena in Italy in early October 2022. All were wonderful views from our rooms at the lodgings we were staying at.




Photo with Lake Bolsema in the background..
 
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taken a week ago while training on the crest of the Island of La Palma over the Atlantic Ocean:


The yellowish layers are made of Saharan desert dust, brought here by a wind called Calima.

I imagine this thread will quickly become the most popular of all.... Human beings contain a bug that forces them to share any sunrise and/or sunset* photos with the rest of humanity..

* as well as cats' pictures, of course
 
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2. El Burgo Lagoon area... super spot for sunsets
3. Camino Buddy for 5 days, Tine from DK
 

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'Two halves' of a fogbow taken leaving Campiello in April 2012. Sunrise behind us.



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A so-called "sun pillar" (the vertical bright shaft of light visible in the picture), caused by reflection of sun light over ice crystall. While hiking on the Andes, near Santiago de Chile:


 
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I hope to take some sunrise pictures on the Camino Portuguese in September but if you enjoy taking sunrise/sunset pictures there is an app you will find indispensable. TPE The Photographer's Ephemeris. View the the time and importantly the direction of sunrise/sunset/moonrise/moonset, etc. for nearly any spot on earth.
 
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... if you enjoy taking sunrise/sunset pictures there is an app you will find indispensable. TPE The Photographer's Ephemeris. View the the time and importantly the direction of sunrise/sunset/moonrise/moonset, etc. for nearly any spot on earth.
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Slightly off topic here but there will be a total solar eclipse in Spain on August 12, 2026. This will occur near sunset (if I remember correctly). If you are there try to be at elevation with no hills, forests or other obstructions in the way.
 
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I took this at the South Pole Station, in 2003. Does it qualify? I needed to walk every day from the station to the observatory. And back...

Sunrises and sunsets there are... rare (once a year, of course!), but they last several weeks.

And believe me: I didn't manipulate the image. The colors were real.
 
I am still loving each and every post shared and there are now over 30 to see!
I never manipulate any picture and never have taken time to visually enhance any of mine. I always think "it is what it is" in nature.
 
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Love this thread. What great pics and all brings back memories of early mornings of places I’ve went through last year and when I go this Sept. I don’t usually take pics, but I will this time! Thanks guys.

Also looking forward to seeing the Milky Way when I start from Burgos this time. Whole new thread mebe? Pics of that? Will have to step outside my hostal some clear night.
 
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church in the morning Portomarin. Road when leaving O Ccebreiro. Cruz de Ferro and just past Cruz de Ferro a little place to have breakfast in the mountains. Beautiful place to have a coffee. Taken May-June 2024
 

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Had lots of sunrise put only one sunset. Sun going down in Astorga. Walked Camino Francés in 2023 and said that was great but once was enough. So to my surprise I walked it again this year and said definitely for sure this was the last time. But looking at these pictures I feel being pulled back.
 

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DwainS said:
church in the morning Portomarin. Road when leaving O Ccebreiro. Cruz de Ferro and just past Cruz de Ferro a little place to have breakfast in the mountains. Beautiful place to have a coffee. Taken May-June 2024
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They are all beautiful, but that one leaving O'C is breath-taking.
 
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OK, but why do people like sunsets and sunrises so much?

Here and even more here are scientific studies about it, which might also explain why so many people have to walk the Camino.
... just like this thread!
 
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Does a "moonset" qualify? This is from yesterday's hike (part of the GR-130), around 11:50 am. The sky was much bluer and the pines much greener. This is the ridge of the island, by the way, as seen from below.

Too bad my phone couldn't capture the real colors!

 
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After a communal dinner at the donativo albergue in Bercianos, the hospitaleros took us to the top of a small hill. They invited us to face west, towards Santiago, and to meditate or pray as some peaceful guitar music played and the sun set in the distance. Here is the group in a semi-circle.



It was a spectacular sunset.


The next morning, as we left Bercianos, there was a beautiful sunrise.


Red sky at night,
Pilgrim's delight.
Red sky at morning,
Pilgrims take warning!

It turned out to be a delightful day!
 
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All of these pictures would be beautiful wall art either as an enlarged photo, poster or canvas.

Thank you all for sharing such incredible spectacular photos. Please keep them coming. It’s too beautiful not to share
 
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