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A colourful sunrise

It was one of those mornings where the sun shone on the clouds from below the horizon and filled the sky with fiery colours!

I’ve been working on a WordPress plugin called Cloud Cover Forecast. It will show you the low, mid, and high clouds for a particular location in a block on your site. It’s inspired by Clear Outside. If you have a blog, take it for a whirl and let me know if it works for you! It’s not on WordPress.org yet, so you’ll have to install it manually by uploading the zip file.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7RM5
Focal length	41mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/100s

Scottish Skyline: From Spires to Bridges

A beautiful sunset pictured from our apartment in Edinburgh a few weeks ago. The weather was glorious that week! It hardly rained at all!

Did you know that the Forth Bridge, visible just left of centre, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was the world’s longest cantilever railway bridge when it opened in 1890? It’s still a marvel of Victorian engineering that stands proud on the Scottish skyline.

Aperture	ƒ/6.3
Camera	ILCE-7RM5
Focal length	172mm
ISO	250
Shutter speed	1/200s

Pastel Skies Over Edinburgh

I wasn’t expecting much of a sunset this evening because the sky at the horizon was filled with clouds, but I was proved wrong. The clouds were lit up in a lovely glow by the setting sun.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7RM5
Focal length	166mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/40s

Golden Dawn Through the Trees

A dramatic sunrise scene with an orange sky and silhouetted trees in the foreground, partially shrouded in mist.

This morning, the sun rose through a beautiful orange haze. This was some 600m away through the eye of a long lens, and it looked even better in real life.

Aperture	ƒ/6.3
Camera	ILCE-7RM5
Focal length	600mm
ISO	800
Shutter speed	1/4000s

Silhouettes of Lisbon at Dusk

A glorious sunset over Lisbon in late 2023. The famous 25 de Abril Bridge is there, of course, as well as construction cranes nearby working in building sites.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	124mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/6400s

The Calm Before The Day

The sun rose this morning a few minutes after 7am, but this is what the sky looked like about 8 minutes before. There was a glorious orange glow and the clouds were lit up from underneath by the sun coming around the globe and shining through the atmosphere.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7RM5
Focal length	26mm
ISO	500
Shutter speed	1/125s

A Silhouette of a Sunset

The sun had just set beyond Dunmore Head, next to Coumeenoole Beach. I had arrived late, but in time to make a silhouette of the hill and catch clouds just peeping over the hill.

Aperture	ƒ/10
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	240mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/250s

Lisbon sunset

The sun sets over Lisbon.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	160mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/500s

Sunset on the Seine

The sun setting over Paris last year reflects in the water of the Seine. Absolutely loved it.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	16mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/125s

Sun shines through the pier

The setting sun caught between the supports of Ventura Pier in California.

Aperture	ƒ/11
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	240mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/1250s

Light from the cloud

Light pours through a gap in the clouds, illuminating the waters between Sheep’s Head and the Beara Peninsula.

Aperture	ƒ/7.1
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	106mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/1000s

Clouds of flame

Sunrise with dark clouds at the top of the frame. Yellow and orange sunlight lighting up the bottom of the clouds and the clear sky underneath. Silhouettes of trees and branches occupy the bottom third of the image.

Shortly after I sat down at my desk this morning, I looked out the window to see quite a beautiful sunrise lighting up the sky.

The top of the sky was a cool blue, moving to dark cloud lower down, then melting to a lovely orange and yellow colour before the sun rose over the distant hill.

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	90mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/400s