CFFC: Time of Day-Dusk


This week Dan has asked for pictures of dusk. I’ve tried to avoid obvious sunsets but these photos show the last of the light before night sets in.

This first one was sailing out of Sydney Harbour on Ovation of the Seas. Naomi and I went on a cruise to Singapore. It would have been late March or early April o. I remember that we celebrated Easter on that cruise. Cruise ships always sail out of Sydney in the early evening. By the time we reached Sydney Heads it was completely dark.

Silhouette of the Sydney Harbour Bridge against a sunset sky, with boats on the water and a view of the cityscape.
Sydney Harbour Bridge at dusk.

This next one was taken at the” Flush Away Winter” Festival in Geeveston in 2015.

Nighttime scene of a community event at an outdoor space in front of a brick building, with people gathered near tents and a fire pit.
The Forest and Heritage building Geeveston

In Hobart, the same year. I probably took it the same night that I took the one I shared last week.

A historic building with a prominent clock tower, illuminated in warm light during dusk, with modern skyscrapers and traffic nearby.
The Hobart GPO at dusk

The photo below was taken in March 2019. It was not long after the bushfires that raged in southern Tasmania for much of that summer. We were still seeing the water bombing planes going south to drop water on hotspots that were still burning after the main fires were under control. I am pretty sure that’s what this one was doing.

Silhouette of an aircraft flying against a cloudy sky during dusk.
Flying south at sunset.

These clouds intrigued me so much. I thought they looked a little like flying saucers. I was in my garden in Geeveston when I saw them.

Clouds at sunset.

A winters evening at Sisters Beach taken in June 2020. It was probably only 5pm. I have terrible night vision but luckily it is only five minutes walk to my house from the beach so I got home before it was fully dark.

Sunset at Sisters Beach June 2020.

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Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs,Teddy and Brodie and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly.

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