Love to share the occasional great sunset photo with you. Took this one in the Canyonlands National Park and it is included in the Canyonlands photos on my Website. 
That night, I also took some sunset shots with “The Needles” in the background (also on the Web site). I usually find sunset photos to be a bit more beautiful than sunrise photos. As a rule, sunrise light is “cooler” in color temperature than sunset light. You will almost always find light a bit more red in the evening. Such was the case here.
To quote from an article by Alain Briot:
“Sunset and sunrise light is the best because at those times the light is horizontal. Horizontal light is light which is parallel to the horizon, grazing the subject and giving it a strong three dimensional quality.
Because the sun is low in the sky at sunrise and sunset, just above the horizon in fact, sunlight has to go through all the layers of dust, atmospheric haze and pollution before it reaches the scene in front of you. During this process the intensity of the sunlight is greatly diminished and softened, because the layers of dust and haze filter the light of the sun. This filtering also removes both the green and blue part of the visible spectrum leaving mostly the red part visible. As a result, sunrise and sunset light is warm, tinted either pink, red or orange, depending on the particular situation on a specific day. The combination of diffused light and of the warm glow of sunrise and sunset, creates a light which is excellent for photography. Furthermore, light which is both soft and warm is extremely pleasing to the eye.”
Interestingly, “Golden Hour” light is longer at sunset (20 minutes at sunrise vs. 40 minutes at sunset. And, as this picture shows, there is plenty of beautiful light available long after the sun is below the horizon. But when you photograph at this time of day, your foreground objects will always be silhouetted.
And now you know….
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