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Ogata Gekko

Japanese, 1859-1920

Full Moon and Autumn Flowers by the Stream, c. 1895

Ogata Gekko

Hawk and Pine

Sunset, South Africa Photograph by Giampiero Torello, Your Shot In the southern summer of 2012, I spent some weeks for work in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, together with my wife, and we used to take long walks on the beaches around the city in our spare time. One evening we came to a beach called Maitland, a large stretch of sand dunes. I took a few photographs of the beach while a light wind was moving the sand and the sky was getting cloudy. Gradually the sea and the sky became first gray and then brown before the sun went down. It lasted just a few minutes, but luckily I had not yet finished the battery of my smartphone! I did nothing to this photograph; I was surprised myself but the sunset really looked like this. —Giampiero Torello