Como Beach is facing west.  It is a good place to watch the sunset.

There is a sunset every day and we like to watch the sunset.  I am thinking of how many days we can watch sunset in our life.  If we have 100 years of life, we are actually having 36500 days of life (now you see life is short).

First, minus the number of days that we spent on traffic jam after going back from work instead of watching sunset.  Second, minus the number of days when it is raining or overcast (too cloudy) or other weather conditions that do not allow the beautiful sunset to appear.  Third, minus the number of days for many things in our life that attach us to our responsibilities. …  You will find that there is not much left.  It is still better than sunrise, because most people nowadays have to minus the number of days that they spend for sleeping on their beds.

Therefore, we cannot miss any sunset if there is an opportunity.  We want to take the best picture of it especially with the person we love the most.

It might not be easy to take a good picture of the sunset.  Look at the following 2 photos.  When the sky is in right colour and lighting, our faces might be too dark, whereas if we have taken our faces clearly, the sky would be too bright.  The solution to this problem is using fill-in flash.

Correct exposure on the background, but under-exposure for faces.

It is quite tricky when using the fill-in flash.  I use Aperture Priority Mode (A) most of the time, and if the built-in flash is switched on, the shutter speed is automatically fixed at 1/60 sec, The sky would be too dark because of the low light in the evening.  You might have an experience when you use flash in the evening or at night, you get a picture with clear faces but black background.  Therefore, I enabled the  slow sync mode (2nd curtain) for the flash so that the shutter speed could be made longer to 1/30 sec or lower.

Correct exposure on faces but over-exposure on the background.

The sky was getting darker but prettier with the light from street and building switched on.

There were two young men who came here, one of them was taking the photo.  They must be good friends.

The jetty said that it would be lonely when the night comes.

Evening is also a good time to pray.  As I know there is a religion do their 4th prayer in a day when the sun is at the horizon. It is a good time to calm down our mind after it has been turning for a day.  Talk to our god while the sky is changing its colour and we might get some inspiration.

I feel pity for those who do not treasure the great time in their life (excluding those who was unlucky and do not have the any great time at all).  I means those who unable to sense the beauty of nature, instead they prefer to do things hurting not only themselves such as smoking, or drinking alcohol, and might hurt the people they love as well but yet they do not know about it.

We greeted a photographer with her tripod and camera walking toward us.  She moved around to find a good place to place her tripod.  Before we left, we found her again underneath the jetty (there is a staircase to go down half way on the right side of the jetty).  May be the jetty is too narrow, we have blocked her way to shoot the sunset, or she might have found a great angle to shoot the jetty with the sunset.

Look back to the overbridge.  It was a long way to walk back.

The sky was completely dark, and I started to shoot the night scene.

The overbridge.

This is another piece of artwork sitting beside the river.  Far away, the lights from building are getting brighter, and the sky turned black slowly.

We left our footprints and went back to our accommodation with dozens of photos and uncountable feeling of warmth and peace.