Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle
1 min readDec 4, 2020

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The Bear Gully (what a great name!) is my favorite. The composition is perfect, the colors dramatic, the sun captured precisely at the best moment, the subtle texture of the sea.... I was also impressed by the note that it was not manipulated.

I don't know if anyone would ever get tired of looking at sunsets or sunrises. Photos are another matter: if they are as brilliantly done as this one, I would want to see them often.

As a (retired) tourism magazine editor I was subjected to hundreds of sunset photo submissions--maybe thousands. (Almost always sunsets--I guess few tourists got up early enough to take the sunrise!) I would reject them out of hand if they did not include something other than sun, sea and clouds. Standing on a beach and seeing such a sight is a stunning experience. Seeing it shoved into a tiny rectangular, two-dimensional snapshot is stunning in the worse sense of the word.

A photograph cannot really capture the drama of a spectacular sunrise, but a really good one can serve as a reminder that each promises a new day, a new set of opportunities, new ways to experience being alive.

I believe that is what yours do, Wade, so I look forward to your posts daily, weekly, or monthly!

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Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle
Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle

Written by Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle

An aging octogenarion and humanist hanging on to his passions: his wife, his family, his writing, painting, photography, gardening and reading in bed.

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