sunset flowers bloom

también de los atardeceres nacen flores

 anca dai tramonti nasse fiori

sun set in Brazil

is it a hole in the rock or is it a map of brazil?

tramonto sognato

 

viva l'oriente

viva l'oriente

quando il sole

tramonta

ad occidente

Varanasi Sunset

black & white ...and colours

sunset in black and white ...and colours

CIELO LIQUIDO

piccoli miracoli della laguna veneta

e le nubi pascolano...

nessuno sembra accorgersene, ma loro pascolano, immense, lente, sui cieli delle città.

...e a volte sembra che se ne vadano via, ma restano.
nello stesso posto.
sembrano scorrere, sparire, riapparire, ma stanno là. immobili, sullo stesso posto. ingannando con le loro mutevoli forme i venti che credono di spingerle via.

...le nubi.

l'oro del tramonto

al tramonto l'oro si sparge su ogni cosa.
e anche nelle periferie più povere per alcuni istanti tra il giorno e la notte l'oro diventa di tutti.
e tutti anche i più poveri diventano improvvisamente ricchi.

dawn and sunset map

here you can admire the map of dawns and sunsets (in a very simplified way!!)

it represents the places in the coasts where you can watch a dawn with the sun rising from the sea (shown with the blue line) and the places where you can stop and enjoy a sunset on the water of the ocean (red line)!

that's a very useful map for those who like this kind of moments!

of course this map is not precise, first of all because during the period of a year the sun starts and finishes its path in different points of the horizon, not always from (the exact) East to the (perfect) West.
second, moving towards the poles these differences in the movements of the sun from a month to another are so big that there are places in which the sun doesn't set down form months and so on... so... dawns and sunsets are not that easy to represent.... anyway more or less here you have an approximate scheme of how it works (or at least the exact scheme of how it works during the days of the equinoxes).

for a smaller place of the earth the problems that I described are already the same, but they can be less strong. here you have a map that works quite well for Europe, for example.

this map is more detailed so you can see also the places where you can enjoy both sunset and dawn in the seas (violet line)