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Sunrises and sunsets are hard to photograph from a technical standpoint, and often hard to avoid seeming cliché from a compositional standpoint, although I think that sometimes artist types are too quick to criticize this particular genre of photograph. One of my art professors back (ok, way back) in college hated sunset photos with a passion. Fortunately, I wasn't into landscape photography at the time either, so we never clashed.
As I've grown to appreciate the landscape genre over the years (older and wiser, and all that), I've come to appreciate such photos for what they are, an attempt to capture a small part of nature's magnificence. Sometimes, artists and art critics' aesthetic sensibilities become warped, and they miss the obvious while trying to find hidden subtexts or some allegorical meaning to what is, simply, an expression of nature's raw physical appeal. Beauty is all around us, for those with eyes to see.
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