Orkney Image Library - Mystery sunset

The Orkney Image Library

Icon Key
	Add to Album
	Remove from Album
	Play Audio
	View Video
	Open Document
	Zoomify

No: 26400 Contributor: No Contributor Year: 2012 Area: Stromness

Previous Next

Help us get organised! If we haven't correctly identified which area this picture is best listed under, please select it below and click Done!

Mystery sunset

Picture added on 01 May 2012 at 00:49

Comments:

No Steven, it's not really a mystery; it's an illusion created by the earth's rotation on its own axis. A very convincing illusion certainly, but one that was demystified quite a wee while ago. Surprised you hadn't heard about it.

[The mystery lay in which sleepy backwater the picture was taken, of course. Also now demystified... Steven]

Added by Ian Hourston on 01 May 2012

From the back of Stromness looking toward Orphir?

Added by Hazel Malpass on 02 May 2012

Sunset? You sure about that?

[Fair point!]

Added by Dave Smith on 03 May 2012

Better a sleepy backwater than a frenetic frontwater I always say, but it's good to know old Copper-knickers didn't live in vain.

Added by Ian Hourston on 06 May 2012

Yes Dave, I meant to say something about the sun not setting in the east as well, but got side-tracked into paronomastics*.
*An anagram for 'most o' Ian's crap' but, accurate as it may be, it's not what I mean - Google it if necessary.

Added by Ian Hourston on 07 May 2012

<< back

Stromness