Sun Rises or Sun Sets...which is your favorite.

Sunsets in Africa.
Not sure where this one was taken. Maybe Etosha.


This one is on my farm.


This is on the neighbor's farm

 

so badly want to get there

 

Beautiful place to vacation. Shitty place to live and do business.

 

Sunset in Africa.

 

Dude where's my truck... Dude. Like oh my god. That's gnarly dude.

 

You are...like..like tootally awesome dude!

 

Sunsets

 

Grew up in the Valley an Santa Barbara, an that's how we talked back in the day. N went to the galleria n hit the beach. I surfed, had long hair. LAMO now , then I thought I was cool. Lol.
I better shut up...

 

Sunsets because, my deck faces the perfect direction, around here they are usually nicer and I don't want to be up at sunrise.
Lake Gaston, VA


Grand Canyon.

 

Like, gag me with a spoon.

 

Like oh my god.

 

Frisco, NC

 

Sunrise here. Nothing like some morning fishing . Ain't Nothin Finer, then fishing Carolina

 

By the green flash? I've looked for it extensively and never seen it, I think it's a myth.

 

What about a moon rise? This was the moon coming up last Wednesday night at Lake 2 in Big Pine.

 

Wow! Looks like the sun!

 

Wow great scenery!

 

That's awesome!

I wish I still had the pic....I took a pic of the moon rising over the ocean.....it was amazing

 

It's hard to tell the difference. I think more people take sunset pictures, so most that you see will be assumed to be sunset. I also think sunrise is more yellow with blue sky and sunset more red that tints the whole sky red, but that totally depends on where you are.

 

Me likey both.

 

I was curious, so I found this:

All "twilight phenomena" are symmetric on opposite sides of midnight, and occur in reverse order between sunset and sunrise, the authors note in "Color and Light in Nature" (Cambridge University Press, 2001). That means there's no inherent, natural cause of a major optical difference between them. However, two human factors break their symmetry.

The first is in our heads. "At sunset, our eyes are daylight adapted and may even be a bit weary from the day's toil," Lynch and Livingston write. "As the light fades, we cannot adapt as fast as the sky darkens. Some hues may be lost or perceived in a manner peculiar to sunset. At sunrise, however, the night's darkness has left us with very acute night vision and every faint, minor change in the sky's color is evident." In short, you may perceive more colors at dawn than at dusk. [Red-Green & Blue-Yellow: The Stunning Colors You Can't See]

Human activities also drive a divergence between them. "At sunset the sky is full of pollutants and wind-borne particles," the authors write. "During the night, winds die down, smog-producing urban activity eases and the atmosphere cleanses itself. The dawn is clearer than any other time of day."

It's a matter of opinion whether pollution or a lack of it makes for prettier twilights. At dawn, clearer skies enable more brilliant reds and oranges to make their way through the atmosphere to your eyes, whereas thicker atmospheres at dusk tend to dull these colors, leading to more washed-out sunsets. On the other hand, more dust and smog (at sunset) can have the effect of scattering light across a greater region of the sky, creating a larger drape of colors, whereas sunrise colors tend to be more focused around the sun. Whichever you prefer, you can frequently tell a sunrise from a sunset by the fact that the latter appears more chaotic, and the former, tidier.

 

Me and my wife our first cruise/sunset together. Too bad the ship sank.

 

Did someone say moonrise?

 

Well now ya gotta go find it

 

Hard to say really, both can have amazing views.
Sunrise

Sunset

 

I go both ways! Posted a sunrise earlier, but a sunset in the desert is just as beautiful!

 

i've seen one and only one

 

Halloween eve