The Beauty in the Mundane

A tale of popcorn, atomic bombs, and sunsets

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Sometimes it seems that the more you chase a sunset, the more likely you are to be greeted by clouds. On most of the occasions where I’ve actually been at high elevations, equipped with a tripod, the only thing to capture has been an unpunctuated mass of hovering gray.

A lesson I’ve learned in the past year, though, is to never make …