setting sun, sitting hare

Two very different images shot five minutes apart.

I spotted this hare as I walked home …………

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when I walked into the garden the sun was in the lilac …….

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I like the contrast between these two pictures taken during the same sunset; the soft rays across the stubble and the burning sphere in the foliage. The tree behind the lilac is actually about 400 yards away and this was the first time this year that I managed to catch the exact moment when the gap in its branches allows the sun to shine through the gap in the lilac’s branches.