Living in Colorado is a bit weird, because it’s easy to overlook a lot of the natural beauty you see every day and it just becomes part of the background.

Every once in a while I’ll be running an errand and will have to pause for a second and just go “holy shit, the mountains look gorgeous today.”

Air pollution makes sunsets more red

When I visited the Grand Canyon, I set up my tripod so I could take a timelapse of the sunset. I figured it would be amazing in that setting.

And… it was just like the first picture. Mild, delicate colors, nothing like what I was hoping for. Though if you like watching the shadows grow and move over the canyon, it’s still good for that.

I suppose the hidden bonus was that by having my phone sitting on the tripod for hours, it meant I spent that time enjoying the scenery and talking to fellow travelers, which was cool.

Magic can appear in the most mundane of places if you look for it.