Photo Gallery Six - Sunrise & Sunset

What can one say about sunrise and sunset?  The list of attributes is clearly quite long.  We often call this time of day the "Golden Hour," but even that is a misnomer as the length of time when these near perfect conditions exist is far less than an hour.  At sunrise, the time is often very brief between having enough available light to begin shooting and the time when the sun is too hot (well, by that I mean bright) to produce pleasing photographs.  In the evening toward sunset, the conditions for great photography are usually longer starting well before that sun actually sets and often continuing for another 15 to 30 minutes after that astronomical event.  In fact, some of my favorite shots have come after official sunset.  There are so many factors that influence how "long" a sunset or sunrise might last and whether they will produce pleasing conditions.  Time of year, latitude, atmospheric conditions, cloud cover, and type of particulates in the air all influence conditions.  I'm still a bit of a novice when it comes to predicting if you will experience this great light; but what I know for sure - if you don't go out and you are not there when these events take place, you are missing some of the best photographic opportunities.  Below we'll share some of those times when we were lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time.