Sunset, Te Puna

A landmark tree near the Wairoa River.
See here for a previous image taken in the daytime: https://365project.org/chikadnz/365/2020-02-01

There are a couple of 'spots' which I was going to edit out, one on either side of the tree, but when I enlarged the image I realised they were birds heading home for the night!

This is the second of two sunset photos I took with my Nikon DSLR this evening, the other one is here: https://365project.org/chikadnz/365/2020-07-10

[Casablanca]

Ha ha, I have done that before and realised they were birds not dust on my lens! I've also thought they were birds and found they were actually a dirty lens LOL

Another beauty. I do very much enjoy the starkness and contrast of bare tree branches against sunrise and sunset. Something lovely about it.

[chikadnz]

@casablanca Thanks, I seem to be posting a lot of tree images lately, probably because I also enjoy them :-)

[Casablanca]

@chikadnz Perfectly good reason to do it :)

[Jacqueline]

Lovely capture