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Tag: sun

  • dawn

    dawn

    As the day begins, a somberness permeates my senses, coloring the mind in a cloud of dust. One cannot describe in words a pain like emptiness or loneliness, they can only express it in pictures chosen to describe it. What makes a person sad? Somber? What makes them happy? Joyful? A world without pain and…

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  • light bending

    light bending

    The light blends with a mix of cotton candy colors as I stare at the endless horizon, transfixed by such common beauty. These photos, taken on an iPhone 13 in San Diego, capture an incredibly familiar phenomenon, the sun’s departure from one’s eye and arrival to another. Beholding this beauty and marveling at its glow…

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  • peering out

    peering out

    I peer out into the vast Atlantic Ocean as the moon peers back at me, slightly above the horizon, over an infinite mass of water. I pause for a moment, hesitating with a camera in my right hand and yearning to stop the time and stay a while in my transfixed posture, just peering out.…

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  • warmth

    warmth

    Peering over a bridge in Seoul’s busy southside district, I catch the fiery ball of light in between a pair of uneven skyscrapers. My mind settles for a few seconds on the display of warmth and radiance, the water reflecting the glow of the sun and the shadows of the buildings, one formed over billions…

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  • kaimanos

    kaimanos

    After long hours running about and gazing in wonder, a close comes to the intimate island of Oahu. The warm glow of our sun’s departure fills the sky as she slowly sets below an endless sea. A spectacle that attracts people from around the world to witness. Tourists and locals alike bathe in the warm…

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