Cheating a bit, this is sunrise on the African coast (the next pic is sunset in the Sahara) from 5* luxury to mud hut type poverty.

Sunset in the Sahara on those well known travelling bikes, a Multistrada and an R1

Shaun,with out picking on your particular pictures most of the sunsets shown here are only half a picture with the forground either blacked out due to exposure problems. Not wanting to teach any one to suck eggs what you see with your eye is not what the camera see's, so often an ajustment needs to be made. One way is to lower the camera and exclude to brighness of the sky this will give the fore ground a chance of being better exposed, holding the shutter button halfway then bring the camers back up and take the shot. All way's take more than one shot, exposing the fore ground and distance in the same way. I will admit you can't do this with a mobile phone or take shoot throw away camera's, but most reasonable camera's have this facility. Another aid to good sunset pictures is really a tripod and longer exposures, but as this is not all way practical especially when thundering across deserts and mountains on a bike . One thing to try is take the camera out of Auto mode and use Manual you will see when using a digi camera the instant results through the len as you troll through the various settings of apretures and shutter speeds. 4D

Meliniemouse has asked me to put this cracking sunset shot of her's up for appraisal. I think this say's it all, lovely shot Mel. 4D

Yeah, you should listen to Fordie about photographic composition you know. After all, he managed to take this picture of the bridge in Bedford.

How the hell he managed to do that without getting abandoned shopping trolley's, people fighting on the embankment, blokes barfing over the bridge and ladettes throwing themselves into the water in the shot I'll never know.

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Thanks Fordie, what a star you are... But I didn't take it, i had it downloaded and thought it looked same as ... see below.... beautiful piccie though

Phoenix n max, see how identical this is to yours? Thats why i asked if you got it from astronomy of the day. Either that, of you've sent your photo in and you should be given royalties, you could be famous?

Jools, thanks for the comments, BUT when I took the shot on a exposure of about 6 sec at f22 a bloke in a single skull rowed across the river in front of me right across the picture,You can even see where he dipped his oars in on each stroke If you look just under the bridge you can see a faint streeking on the water where he rowed by,that's how to take pictures in crowded places , unless the subject is stationary if won't come out on film.

Thanks for that Pete, that gives me an excuse to go back there and test the theory, i'll blame you when the wife asks why i'm going again:lol:

Yeah i'm just looking at it. In mine the tripod leg is just visible in the left hand corner as a friend was stood beside me taking a shot too.

How weird - where is the one you have from ? I've got a succession of them taken as the sun went down. I thought that one was the best.

Deffo my photo and I don't recall posting it ever before either !

Heres one a few mins earlier and minus tripod leg. It was taken Easter 2003. I'm confused now :confused: