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Photographer Adam Fernandez recently shared his tips on how to take better sunset photos, along with some of his own images that illustrate step by step how the tips work.
Budget Travel staffers revealed their prettiest sunsets in response to February's masthead question, and then we put the question to our readers.
We were wowed by the outpouring of readers' sunset photos and stories and created a slide show of some of the best.
If you didn't have a camera handy to capture that perfect sunset, share your memories below. What was your best sunset ever?
Image: Burnt Store Marina in southwest Florida (submitted by Budget Travel reader Shan Meils)
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I sent my Sun Set PHOTOS TAKEN IN OCEAN
CITY MD. I CALLED IT "BREATHLESS SUN SETS"
Posted By Darlene Case on February 27, 2008, 7:30 PM
My best sunset ever was at our farm in rural Missouri. It was a cold, January evening and the sunset surrounded our valley....a 360 degree vista of pinks, oranges, yellows and reds. Every direction was awesome. While we often have lovely sunsets, this was the only 360 degree one in our memory. We've experienced lovely ones in Denmark, Florida, Oregon, and on the banks of the Mississippi, but the one in our own back yard was the best.
Posted By Sharon Croissant on March 3, 2008, 7:41 PM
The most beautiful sunsets and sunrises I've ever seen are in Lincoln, Nebraska. Some evenings it looked as if someone had sprinkled Easter egg colors all over the sky with hues of coral, turquoise, and pale pinks and blues. I love where I'm living now, but I do miss those wonderful skies of Nebraska!
Posted By Linda Gunn on March 6, 2008, 9:24 PM
My best sunset was at Seal Beach,Ca. It was
the most beautiful thing I think I ever saw in
my life.
Posted By Jamie on March 6, 2008, 10:19 PM
My best sunset was while I was in a ship traveling by myself from Italy to Greece, in front of me was a beautiful Greek Island under the sunset, that view was that beautiful that just made me cry and wished so hard to have my loved ones next to me to share such blessed moment.
Posted By Ma. Luisa De la Rosa on March 7, 2008, 12:14 AM
The best sunset that I ever took was the "Ring of Fire" a few years ago when there was a full eclipse of the sun at sunset. I took the photo from the Torry Pines State Park just north of La Jolla,CA
Posted By Robert Dlouhy on March 11, 2008, 12:20 AM
There have been several beautiful sunsets I've witnessed. One of the most memorable was in Sayulita, Mexico, roughly 35 kilometers north of Puerta Vallarta. Picture a moderately-sized horseshoe bay framed on all sides by mountain peaks covered in jungle...then a multi-colored sky sprinkled with various cumulous clouds allowing the sun's final rays to reflect, refract, and prism in all directions. It was as if one were inside a surrealistic painting. It left me ecstatic.
Posted By bubba culpepper on April 3, 2008, 8:40 AM
I was a summer counselor on a mountain camp south of Pittsbugh, PA. A quick moving storm blew through so fierce that we gathered all the campers in one spot. Afterwards,low clouds were rapidly flying by. Some of us moved to a cliff area called the end of the world to watch the dark clouds race across the sky. Eventually, small pin holes began to appear in the clouds letting through sun light. It was like watching sparkling diamonds shoot across the heavens. As the clouds began break up, a magnificent flowing array of rich reds, oranges, yellows, pinks and purples with shooting rays of sunlight was painted until it calmed to a brilliant serenity. It was more than just a sunset. It was a total experience of an awesome display of the power of God through His creativity to the peaceful rest of God.
Posted By Larry Wakefield on April 19, 2008, 8:48 AM
Nowhere is the sunset a more celebrated daily event
than at Rick's in Negril on Jamaica's western coast. Amateur cliff divers or the very brave entertain the open air quests while Red Stirpe beers are raised to toast the spectacular sunsets as sail boats enter the lagoon to enjoy the show. A Negril sunset at Ricks is a life long memory.
Posted By Eric Bryce on April 23, 2008, 1:07 AM
The 8th floor lounge of the Social Science building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has a breathtaking view looking out over Lake Mendota. I went up there between evening classes one night, intending to get some studying done... I instead spent the entire hour staring at the receding sun and shifting colors. I snapped some really bad pics with my camera phone, but the colors were so magnificent it still was able to pick up a beautiful purple and pink aura - it was the background on my phone for over a year!
Posted By Libby on April 24, 2008, 12:38 PM