Photo by: mark452.

This picture of a sunset in Australia came out of the recent interesting pictures on Flickr. I don’t know why I’m drawn to all these sunset pictures when I browse through the stream… but a nice sunset just grabs your attention. This one is awesome. The colors are great, and the clouds create some interest in the sky. The silhouettes of the trees in the foreground seem kind of eerie. The reflections of the clouds coming off the water make the place seem like a swamp, or a bog. Altogether, it’s one awesome visual effect.

Photo by: joviano.alves.

Found this picture in the Recent Interesting section of Flickr. Amazing sunset. I blogged about a similar picture a few weeks back, but this one tops it for sure. I love the centeredness of the tree, really helps the composition. And the saturation in the sky, along with the spectrum of colors in the sunset, gives a great effect. Very cool.

Photo by: daplums.

Wow. The colors and the saturation in this sunset is just eye-catching. It’s definitely what caught my eye. I was looking through the recent uploads, and within one or two pages of pictures this screamed out to me, “Cool.” Sunsets are a tough thing to photograph on auto, cause the camera doesn’t always know how to meter the sky and pick the right exposure to get those nice, saturated colors. So when you come across a decent photograph of a sunset, you know you’ve come across someone who has some idea about what they’re doing…

Photo by: Hullboy2.

So I looked through the recent uploads to Flickr today, and it took a while to find something nice. On the first page, I saw a cool landscape picture, but I thought I’d look for something else… and then I waded through pages of mediocre junk before I saw piece. I love the composition, with the tree in the foreground and the little hill/peak in the back right. I think it would have been a better picture if it was taken a few minutes earlier in the sunset, so the sky was a little bit more colorful… but hey. You can’t control everything. If you could just re-wind the sun by 15 minutes any time you wanted to, we’d all have an easier time taking pictures outside.

Photo by vramak.

I wanted to look through some sports pictures today. Although this isn’t exactly what I had in mind when I started flicking through Flickr, it is too cool. Like a lot of people commented, the timing here is perfect. I like the color. Only thing that seems a bit odd is the pose. If the player is jumping like that, I’d assume he’s trying to do some kind of bicycle kick – which means that his foot should be coming up under the ball. Instead it looks like he’s kind of drop kicking the ball kung fu style…

Photo by Micah Camara.

Very cool picture. The quick shutter speed freezes the water in place. It’s nifty how the water splays out into a near perfect circle, too. Looks like a nice beach to hang out on, too. Nicer than the Jersey shore…