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The Sun Sets On Ten Years

A sunset is one of the beautiful phenomenons of nature

The inspiration for this post comes from this KTHT prompt set by Spyder:

When is the last time you took the time to capture a sunset? Was it intentional or did it just happen? What was so special about that sunset? Did you take it in by yourself or who was with you?

The moment I saw the word sunset, I thought about the most beautiful sunset I have ever photographed, now just over 6.5 years ago. It was the last weekend of October 2015, and we celebrated our 10-year wedding anniversary.

We had booked into a hotel in Kop van Zuid, with a wonderful panorama view over the Erasmus Bridge. On the eve of our wedding anniversary, we discovered warships from South Korea moored at Hotel New York, for the 65th Anniversary of the Korean War, and the role The Netherlands had played in it.

Despite the next day being the 1st of November, we sat out in the sun watching performances of the Korean soldier — singing, dancing, taekwondo and more.

But, back to the day before.

On our walk, there was a hint at a beautiful sunset, like the header image showing silhouettes of Korean warships against the sky.

In the hour that followed the above image, I snapped about a hundred photos as the beautiful display of colors in the sky deepened.

When the sun sets at the end of a wonderful day — which that day was — it seems like the crowning of one’s happiness. At ten years of marriage, we were still in love as the day we met, thirteen years before.

There are only twenty minutes between the two images above. On the left, the sun still lights up the sky, and on the right it has totally disappeared behind the clothes, and probably over the horizon, intensifying the colors in the sky.

“Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies…” ~ Paulo Coelho

That day, capturing the beautiful colors of the sunset, watching it with the love of my life, I felt pure joy. This sunset helped to make the weekend even more perfect than it already was.

The prompt mentioned above sparked memories of this sunset, but also thoughts of how I’ve learned I mostly suppress my feelings, and adjust mine to those of others. Through this journey of healing, of getting in touch with my wounded inner child, I will get back to feeling pure joy again.

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