I love silhouettes. I think that there is something so sexy and mysterious about them. I also, no matter how cliched they may be, love sunsets. I don't think they could ever be overrated. The combination of both a sunset and the silhouettes created in contrast to it was so immediately striking to me, that I just had to take a photograph. This was taken in Newport, after a friend and I had gone on a bike ride along the ocean to find a place to eat. As we were locking up our bikes I finally took in that beautiful sunset alit with fiery pinks, flashes of yellow, and the dark washes of gray sky that seems to loom in stark contrast against it. I find this particular contrast of something rather dark and eerie next to something bright and magical to be one of my favorites in nature because there is just something so majestic and fantastical about it. It is truly hard to tear your eyes away, I had quite a difficult time going into the restaurant after taking in this particular view.
Very nice study - I think most of our love for sunsets is what forms our desire to see silhouette in theatre and to be so drawn to rich contrasts in foreground and background
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