At a certain moment the light disappears.
To go north and see what north really means as the light disappears, the temperature drops and the world freezes.
The hardest colors to see are reds, as red light disappears and turns to a dirty brown in about 20 to 30 feet of water.
It was this twist -- when the ball of light disappears in a puff of computer-generated imagery and the missing, 4400 strong, alight in the shadow of Mount Rainier -- that hooked Peter Coyote.
I stop to snorkel off Kondoi Beach, dodging sea cucumbers on the sand below, before weaving my way through the tranquil village, back across the island as the last of the light disappears and the bright stars come out.
Some of this infra-red light disappears into the pupil (the dark opening in the centre of the iris), and some of it bounces back off the iris (the coloured part of the eye), the cornea (the clear part at the front of the eye), the eyelid or the surrounding skin.
For example, a bright light can bleach pigments in the retina and cause the retina's neurons to adapt; these effects linger after the light disappears, creating an afterimage.
The light disappears as the rain continues to fall.
