![Surprise View Sunset.jpg](http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7156/6778239755_0b8f93e52a_b.jpg)
I have been a frequent visitor to Surprise View and have taken lots of photos there over the years but I’d never really managed to nail a decent sunset there before. So I decided to head over there today to try and do just that.
I also needed to take a photo for week 4 of my one photo a week in 2012 challenge too so I thought a Surprising sunset would do the job.
I set up my tripod behind the big rock formations at the top of the hill so that they would be silhouetted against the setting sun. A group of families then started climbing up the rocks and I liked how they were also silhouetted against the sky if I exposed for the sky and not the rocks.
One of the Dads spotted me and came over. I was a little worried that he would be angry at me for taking photos of his kids but he was nothing of the sort. In fact he was interested in what I was doing and when I showed him that everyone was coming out as a silhouette it got him and the other parents thinking. They all very kindly climbed back up onto the rocks again and decided to pose for me.
![Surprise View Sunset-2.jpg](http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7173/6778240609_ca0fcf1ba0_b.jpg)
That first pose was marvellous. But then they decided to get even more creative. And bingo, I got my week 4 shot!
![4/52 - Surprising Silhouettes!](http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7165/6778241237_6a2130532a_b.jpg)
The families then left leaving me with a lone man standing on the rocks.
![Surprise View Sunset-4.jpg](http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7152/6778241897_577e4f16f4_b.jpg)
![Surprise View Sunset-5.jpg](http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7168/6778242403_f631078f37_b.jpg)
Once the sun had completely set the whole sky went a wonderful yellowy-orange colour but by then I had set off back down the hill towards my car. I would have loved to have stayed and captured the rocks with this colour in the sky but I didn’t want to have to negotiate the rocky climb back down in the dark!
I have realised that I forgot to blog about my week 3 photo last week. So here it is. It is a 3 photo panorama stitch of the University of Sheffield Students’ Union building. I had walked past it the day before at sunset and the sky behind the Union building was full of glorious orange colours. I didn’t have my camera with me so I vowed to return the next day. And typically the sunset the day after was rubbish. But it was raining a bit which allowed me to capture some great reflections in the ground so all was not lost.
![3/52 - University of Sheffield Students' Union](http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7160/6727441133_6383c12493_b.jpg)
Stay tuned to my blog for my week 5 photo next week!
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