For a striking sunset, he said the window of an airplane as it takes off from the Los Angeles International Airport is the place to be.
British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote that the evening sky was "more like inflamed flesh than the lucid reds of ordinary sunsets". In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., firefighters were dispatched after one resident mistook the striking sunset for a fire in the distance.
A striking sunset at the Pomar Junction Winery in Palo Robles, California.
Dry air had surged into Virginia from the north and west, and the skies cleared in the afternoon, which produced a striking, red sunset.
Composed of arkosic sandstone, which contains a high proportion of feldspar, the rock changes colour according to the position of the Sun; it is most visually striking at sunset, when it is coloured a fiery orange-red by the Sun's rays.
They also squabble over how to photograph the striking scenery and sunsets (projected into the movie at odd moments, the photographs seem like old-master Dutch paintings), hone their depression and fear of illness, discuss the folly of the war in Iraq and watch a group of machos at target practice.
During the day, you can wander the island, walk along nature trails, fish for flounder, steer a small motorboat through mangrove marshes while on the lookout for manatees, or climb the 65-foot water tower at sunset for a striking view of the neighboring islands, including Sanibel and Captiva.
Whether used just to make a sunset look more striking, or to create the most over-the-top car chase scene or intergalactic war, special effects can have a huge impact.
He said it could, however, produce striking orange-pink sunrises and sunsets.
For a striking example, consider the peach-colored Sunset Mission Mausoleum, just inside the main gate at Inglewood Park Cemetery.
With the cows, and the ponies, and the sunset over the wildflowers, the striking cypress trees and the stone ruins, it really is a place that belongs in paintings and songs.
