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Beach Photos in the late afternoon haze of an orange sunset with its filtered rays show people hand-in-hand, and a parent holding their child with his little head and huge ball cap. 

 

As you take the late afternoon beach photos of fading suns, and people walking hand in hand, you may start to imagine dialogues based on the people in the pictures. Faceless shadows in silhouette and motion show people walking, talking and playing in the water together.

 

It's corny, but takes on an air of romanticism, or melancholy for the magic moments life holds. Sunsets at the beach can amplify the emotions and memories by stripping away the overwhelming information of a thousand people moving every direction in the daylight sun. Reduced to shadows, several colors, and outlines of people, your mind is freed from the "noise".   As we watched the parent/child relationship, couple in hand with a purse or camera bag clutched between them, and two people bobbing offshore in the ocean together, it reminded us of this song by Barbra Streisand...

 

People,
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
We're children needing other children
And yet letting our grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children
Lovers
Are very special people
They're the luckiest people in the world
With one person,
One very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you are half now you're whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who needs people
People, people who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world.

 

The beach is a special place to share. And in the late afternoon, you'll see people dropping by after work, alone, soaking up a sense of normalcy outdoors. You'll also see couples and families enjoying, playing, sharing. The sunset creates a blanket of light that disguises the imperfections the bright mid-day sun so clearly shine upon.  The sunset is one of those experiences that is wonderful to have vision to perceive. But beyond the vision, there's also a feeling...sort of a calm at the beach as the winds die down, or so it seems.
 

 

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