Sunrises/Sunsets

Golden hour and the dramatic skies that bookend the day.

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The edges of day — first light breaking over ridgelines, the long warm hours, the slow color of twilight.

20 photographs
Layered Blue Ridge summits with golden god rays raking across autumn ridges at sunset Molten red horizon under dramatic cloud bands at sunset over the Blue Ridge Vertical view of layered mountain ridges glowing in golden sunset light Fiery clouds over Pilot Mountain silhouette at sunset Autumn ridges glowing in warm golden hour light Layered Blue Ridge ridgelines in cool twilight afterglow Bare dead tree silhouetted against twilight Blue Ridge ridges Pre-dawn sunrise breaking gold over silhouetted mountain ridges Patterned cloud bands stretching across a sunset sky above a hazy valley Twilight blue hour over layered Blue Ridge ridges Warm sunset light over silhouetted Blue Ridge ridgelines Pilot Mountain silhouette under colorful sunset clouds Vertical twilight scene with cool blue dusk over distant ridges Panoramic sunset stretching across rolling Blue Ridge horizons Crescent moon rising above silhouetted ridge at the blue hour Vertical twilight scene with silhouetted Appalachian ridges Wide panoramic sunset over the layered Blue Ridge Mountains Twilight blue hour with distant ridges fading into evening Soft sunset light spreading across distant Blue Ridge ridgelines Warm sunset light raking across a wooded Appalachian ridge