It is a rare comfort to pause after the labours of New Year’s Eve, for the mind does not surrender its haste at once, but asks for several quiet days before it can truly come to rest. The season has been marked by fierce heat and an unrelenting sun, so that the daylight hours press heavily upon the body and make any venture outdoors an exercise in endurance rather than pleasure.
Joel, meanwhile, is carrying his family northward on holiday to New South Wales, chasing a change of air and scene. I shall remain closer to home, content to trace a series of small, wandering excursions through the reaches of the Melbourne Fringe, finding interest in familiar streets seen at a gentler pace.
What follows is another image from my Pearses Bay sunset collection, completed over the course of 2025—a quiet record of evenings when the light softened at last, the heat loosened its grip, and the day surrendered, with a certain grace, to the calm of night.
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That's wonderful :-D
ReplyDeleteI am already back to work. I feel like having a longer break
Delete...indeed a Sunday best!
ReplyDeleteThank you Tom. Trying to make some positive experiences whenever I can
DeleteBeautiful capture of the surrender to grace.
ReplyDeleteOnly when I have time off work, there is hardly any grace
DeleteFelicitarte por el magnifico partido que sacas de los paisajes marinos en los atardeceres.
ReplyDeleteSaludos.
I am just attracted to golden hour colour and the fish n chips nearby
DeleteSuch a gorgeous mystic blue!!
ReplyDeleteThe moment lapses like within 2 minutes
DeleteVosaltres per massa calor i nosaltres pel fred, tant uns com altres cerquem indrets on se'ns faci més fàcil respirar.
ReplyDeleteMolt maca la imatge.
Salutacions!
In the broad daylight, I hide inside the house
Delete"The day surrendered, with a certain grace, to the calm of night". You caught the surrender process with your camera :)
ReplyDeleteNice to be a poet once in a while
DeleteI never get tired to seeing your sunset photos. This one does capture the softness of the light and all those great colors.
ReplyDeleteThank you Tom. I really appreciate my work being looked upon
DeleteYour photos are simply amazing. The colors and depth are perfect. Please stop by my blog tomorrow for a new art link up. Have a nice evening.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful with each sunset being so very different from another just as a day is.
ReplyDeletelooks very beautiful
ReplyDeleteIt looks so peaceful.
ReplyDeleteA lovely sunset photograph.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan