Sunrise and Sunset
Just like on the Colorado Plateau in the USA, Isalo’s soft sandstone has created sculptures and windows. And during most of the year La Fenètre de d’italo provides an ability to observe the sun setting through its window. Tore and I went there to see and capture the sunset through the window.
I want back to look at my photos of the Colorado plateau, and “as a bonus” I include in this post also a few photos of windows or arches that are famous in Utah. The first one is of Mesa Arch outside Moab. It is famous because the sunrise (rather than sunset as it was with La Fenètre de l’Isalo) can be captured through the arch, whose underside is lit up by the sun rays. The second arch is maybe the most famous of them all, The Delicate Arch. The third is of Turret Arch (in the background) photographed through the North Window at sunrise. And the final image is of Metate Arch along the aptly named Hole-in-the-Rock road near Escalante.
But now back to Isalo in Madagascar. The morning after I had photographed La Fenètre, I climbed up the mountain just beside our hotel and captured the sunrise. And then I turned the camera around (well, it wasn’t quite as easy as that) and got the morning sun rays on the rocks. The sandstone takes on a lovely glow by the warm sunlight in the morning and the low sun creates shadows accentuating the ruggedness of the hills.
We were out most of that day, but returned in the evening to our hotel and just after sunset the sky was lit up by the sun and the rocks were still bathed in a diffuse light from the sky and the sun that just had set.
