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Part 4 of a bi-annual series of sunset photos taken in San Francisco’s Sunset District
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Just now
Emily Dickinson said it best in her poem Sunset:
A sloop of amber slips away upon an ether sea
And wrecks in peace a purple tar, the son of ecstasy.
The first six months of 2025 offered many examples of ecstatic, mysterious, and as the last photo demonstrates, mystical skies over western San Francisco. Here are 28 images that attempt to capture the magnificent range of nature’s light show.
