Many people say that the sunrises we currently experience around the world are due to the pollution we throw up into the atmosphere. I have definitely seen first hand that this is very true.
In Johannesburg where the mine dust and industry spew out heaps of pollution the sunsets and rises are very very red. Quite spectacular. In Cape Town it was less so but then we did have far more effect of the sea....clouds and that sort of thing.
However I notice that even here in Plettenberg Bay the sunrises and sunsets in particular are generally more spectacular than in the cities. The colours are not quite as strong but they are more varied. We seem to see a far broader colour spectrum. At sunset, the side of the horizon opposite the sunset takes on a rainbow spectrum close to the horizon. The onlky other place i have seen this is when i was flying back from Kenya in 2005...the plane flight was perfectly timed to catch the setting sun at 30 000 feet...this was frikkin unbelievable...and to top it off there where thunderstorms below which made it all very surreal. Unfortunately not my camera toting days
So back to pollution. I wonder what sunsets looked like 2000 years ago? Would be interesting to see. Im sure volcanic activity do a similar effect as do fires...but Im sure we are impacting more than what these normally do
...and this is where my sunrise shots are stored. There are some awesome shots from the region of the Garden Route in South Africa
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