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, most of it photographed along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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