For the last year I’ve been snapping the finest sunsets spotted from the window of my Silver Lake home office. This one above was from the shortest day of the year, December 21.
It’s a fantastic view, and I know I’m lucky to end the day in such sun-sinking splendor. I usually stop what I’m doing and watch the giant, wrap-around theater darken around me.
For a sunset to be photo-worthy, it has to have a good range of colors and/or interesting clouds, but I also have to be 1) there in the studio 2) working at the moment the sun goes down (all of these conditions are not met often as you’d think).
Quite honestly, most of the year the sunsets aren’t very good in LA due to the wall of ocean gloom that seeps into the city right around that time of the evening.
But this time of year, with clear cold skies, they’re the very best. (All these are taken with my iPhone, by the way.)
You can see them all in this Flickr slideshow. Happy new year.
