When is my favorite time of day? What is the light like then?
My favorite time of day is dusk. Of course the time changes as the year changes. Needless to say, there is nothing like the viewing of the suns final rays, the last moments of color, in the sky before the black of night. Dusk occurs right before the sky goes black. It is said that this is the time that the human eye can see the least sharply and therefore dusk is the most dangerous time to drive. This is why I sit on my porch and watch the night fall. If I'm lucky the sky is a purple-pink-bluish and the light is very dim. It is the perfect time of day to look up at trees making silhouettes on the sky. It is the perfect time to be outside sitting with someone who know well. There is no need to see what they look like therefore you focus on their silhouette and tones of their voice. Your eyes adjust quickly and enjoy the humbleness of the light, but are quickly fooled as the darkness vastly sets in. For that thirty minutes, if you're lucky, there is a light that must be impossible to recreate artificially.