Overlooked Beauty 

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Aaron's photo 9/31/14

    The Sunset was a very hard thing to choose at first. What could be so amazing about some common colors such as orange, red, or purple? But with my hours upon hours of observation I've learned to love these daily, overlooked works of beauty. "The sun shot through the sky today in an array of colors showing it's common beauty was not to be underestimated. The purple knout lashed across the sky whipping the farthest reaches of it, testing it's limits. The outer limits were covered in these majestic whips of purple but, if you followed its trails closer to there origins you could see a shield of orange that set up a perimeter around the sun. As the sun settled down behind the mountains the barrier of orange was in a rush right behind it and the outlasting reach of the belts of purple was shorter and shorter by the minute. The common beauty disappearing before me, showing me it should never be underestimated again." - Field notes 9/30/14

Aaron's Photo 9/30/14

    I've done some research and found out why these beautiful colors are created only at sunset. Well when the sun is the low in the horizon the sunlight has to travel a farther distance. Meaning it has to travel through more particles in the atmosphere according to Komonews.com. So during the day when the sunlight is appearing to be a white color it's actually a combination of the whole spectrum of the rainbow. Some of these colors scatter easier such as green or blue so that's why we don't see them. Then there's stronger colors with a stronger wavelength(a.k.a they can shine farther) like purple, red and orange are visible since their wave lengths can make it through the air particles. Smoke, pollution and ash can enhance these colors since theirs more particles in the air to scatter away the wave lengths. This is why the sunsets last week were so unusually colorful. 

  The sunset has many unique but common beauty's that I feel are underestimated or are looked at as just problems like the smoke. I wanna expose it's beauty for what it really is and I am going to take that task upon me and expose a unique asset of the sunset every week.