Summer Sun Challenge
“No, you don’t shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that’s what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see”
This past summer, my friend B and I decided to commit to a photography challenge that would get us out of the house every evening. The goal was to take a photo of the sunset. In the same spot, at the same time (9 pm) every night. Then we would share our sunset photos with each other.
The original goal was two weeks - but this was quickly extended and ended up being 32 days. We stopped due to the the simple fact the sun had slipped below the horizon.
In respect to full disclosure - I did miss one day.
However.
This ended up being one of my favorite challenges I have ever done - even though each photo is from the exact same field, from (fairly close to) the exact same spot, each photo is different. Sometimes the variation is slight and subtle - sometimes drastic. Seeing the same sunset from another’s perspective from their own field was also fantastic - because they were often quite distinct from each other, sometimes differing colors and oftentimes differing clouds.
I enjoyed watching the sun slowly slip lower in the sky… but the light. The light was everything. Changing from warm tones to cool, from soft to bold. Audacious and brazen clouds to hushed and composed. Sometimes 9 pm was punctuated with low rumbles of thunder of a passing storm, or the quietness where Night tucks Day away to await the coming Dawn.
But.
Always.
Full of cheeky, and insistent Mosquitoes.
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five
Day Six
Day Seven
Day Eight
Day Nine
Day Ten
Day Eleven
Day Twelve
Day Thirteen
Day Fourteen
Day Fifteen
Day Sixteen
Day Seventeen
Day Eighteen
Day Nineteen
Day Twenty
Day Twenty-One
Day Twenty-Two
Day Twenty-Three
Day Twenty-Four
Day Twenty-Five
Day Twenty-Six
Day Twenty-Seven
Day Twenty-Eight
Day Twenty-Nine
Day Thirty
Day Thirty-One
Day Thirty-Two