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In this photograph in La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos I have portrayed the seagull flying towards the sunset on Cunit beach.
In the snapshot it appears as if the last sun of the day was attracting this bird towards it before the final moment when night will fall.
The color of the sky also stands out, marked by the candilazo, a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that ranges from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is soft tones between red and orange.
In a certain way, when this light passes through the clouds, it illuminates them and could be said to color them with those tones.
The candilazo is also known as arrebol, which is the red color seen in clouds illuminated by the sun’s rays, especially at dawn and in the evening.
Cunit is one of the summer destinations on the Costa Dorada, located in the Baix Penedès region, but in winter, when the beaches are half empty, it also maintains a special charm linked to its sunrise and sunset skies. Cunit borders the towns of Segur de Calafell, Cubelles and Castellet y Gornal, but above all its horizon faces the Mediterranean.
