Compare and Contrast
My collaboration with Melinda continues with golden views to the western horizon. My photo is the one below, Melinda’s above and her co-post is here.
It was inevitable, if this series went on long enough, that I would end up blown out of the water, or perhaps a better cliché would be blown sky-high. And to add irony to injury, she does it using colour.
I did take digital colour photographs of this sunset but I became wrapped up in catching some golden light on the beach below, and the photos did not work out all that well.
The picture I include here is from a point and shoot film camera. It does show the setting from which Melinda was shooting, including that we were at the top of a bluff above the ocean. She had burrowed into that fringe of vegetation right to the edge of the cliff like she had grown up in these parts.
Even though the thick shrubbery was cloying and excessively damp by Texas standards, she managed to stay on point and capture this great shot. Given that we were standing on Point No Point that is quite something.
But then that’s Melinda for you.
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For other posts in this collaboration click on this link.
My photo – Olympus mju II (aka Stylus Epic) 35/2.8 lens, Ilford XP2 (expired ca 2004).
Melinda’s photo – Nikon D7000, 28/1.8 lens
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burnt embers 
I’m going to have to agree with you on this one, But your shot is not without merit. I have plenty of b&w sunsets on my hard drive.
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Ken I did look at my colour ones for something I could put up with this shot, but found in the end that it might as well be this one since film point and shoot cameras are a large part of what I shoot at the moment, and did not have anything that was much better than this in digital. Melinda did an amazing job with a 28mm lens and a lot of stuff that needed cropping. This one is a real lesson in many ways.
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