took this one a while ago but just love it.....174_7421 

shadows in the setting sun.....174_7447 

took this one a few weeks ago over a bay i grew up by.....sunset on bay 

 

Thanks for looking and more to come!!!

comments welcome

 

Have been trying to find some sun shots that would work, but no success.  It has been storming at sundown the past week.  (Not a complaint, we need the rain,) but no good sun pix.

Searching the archives, I found some that may work. 

Sunrise_St_Pete
Double_sun 
Catch_the_Sun 
Sunset_caught by clouds
Sunset_with_pilings 

 Will try to get more creative before the challenge is over.   

Catching The Sun Sculpture 

It is a quiet Sunday afternoon here and I stepped out into the garden to view a few of my flowers.  Just a couple of them here:

Pink Gazania in Garden

Pretty Orange Zinnia

Yellow African Daisy 

 

The River Flows With Color At Twilight.

Twilight Falls 

sundower monday      

sundowner friday

I hadn't made an official entry yet for the Catch the Sun theme...

Just a few of the many, many sunset shots from Aruba. I used a ND Grad for almost all of the sunset shots when there. No doubt the conversion & compression will lessen the color of the clouds as it was the color of a perfectly soft-boiled egg! No better way to describe it!

Aruba Sunset 1

Aruba Sunset 2

Aruba Sunset 3

A cloud shot like we were just talking about:

Dominica Sunrise 1

Not the sun, per se, but how it affects the pastels on a beach in Grenada at noon:

Grenada at noon 

And finally, a rainbow shot from Grenada:

Grenada Rainbow 1

The one striking thing about rainbows in the Caribbean to me was how much of the green and blue you could see. In the states you can only see some red, orange and yellow, but the rest are absorbed by pollution somehow.It seemed like someone had taken some highlighters and drawn across the sky, they were so bright and clear.

I've since ditched the lens that I took these with, but even with a mid quality lens I hope they convey what a calm and serene place the sun makes these islands of paradise.

The sun shining through a mysterious pine tree in St. Lucia?

St. Lucia Pine Cone? 

A sample sunny smile from St. Lucia!

St. Lucia Smile 

Taking a break during the hottest (sunniest) part of the day...

St. Lucia Siesta

The ship that was used in the Pirates of the Caribbean sailing into the sunset (under motor power, by the way!):

Sailing into the Sunset on the Black Pearl 

Some sort of watermelon sun god, perhaps?

Top Banana!

You know what they say...

You can do anything with sardines! 

The water was so clear, sunlight went all the way to the bottom and back over 20' deep!

Little fish catching the sun in Barbados 

More little fish in Barbados

All these images are un-retouched, uncropped, and right off the sensor. Also, no need to comment on any/all of them... just meant to be the submission for the challenge! :)

I love the way that the trees seem to beFiltering the sun 

We had fires burning all around us last summer.  I took these as the sun was setting on our lake that is just outside of town.100_0456 ,100_0457, 100_0461,100_0475 

If you missed this event last night...  not to worry.....

 

It'll happen again tonight...yep... I promice... 

Foggy Sunrise

 Thumbnail Sunset going down

Sunrise 1st place winner in advanced assigned in our local camera club.  

Sunrise (re-done) better? Can't really appreciate the clearness even though I didn't put re-size when I uploaded it... oh well... Thanks for the comments!  

 Its been a long time since I have been here....popped in tonight, saw the weekly challenge...thought I would throw this one up. It was taken last Sunday in my backyard. Its called a solar halo or 22 deg halo...Sun

  

 

Red Lily Catching the Sun

Red Lily in the Sun

He Loves Me

Reaching With My Petals    

We have been having a lot of sun lately for these flowers to catch.  Hope that you enjoy them.  Jo

Sun Catcher or is he looking at me??

Thumb:Tiger flower

I agree with Penny, in Michigan, It's hard to catch the great shots when Mother Nature, will not cooperate. But here are what I think are some good shots. Michigan sun set Michigan sun rise & galls Michigan sun rise Galls in flight Michigan sun rise Michigan sun after ice storm Michigan real late sun set sun_ball_game I hope you like them

Catching the sun in the riggingyardarm 

catch1 catch2 catch3 catch4 sunrise over virginia beach va

 

 

This post may be a little "Right-Wing" for some of you.....  

A recent RV trip to a beautiful lake on the Marine Base, Quantico, gave me a chance to capture these sunset photos.

 

"Love is a Ring of fire"

 

Don't Touch It!

 

Sun Down

 

Lunga_Park

From a recent walk around a lake.  The morning sun was coming up and the dew was aglistening.  I was able to capture the sun in these two.
Little sun in grass    Dew on grass 

Here is a different type of grass and a whole allota sun.

Was gonna post this anyway, and happened to see it was the challenge. ( sorry , no ass pictures of orbit this time :^)sunrise in Aransas Pass