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The Sky as a Colour Chart
Twenty minutes after sunset, the sky does gradients no software would dare.
There is a slot in the evening — photographers call it the blue hour, though it is mostly pink and violet — when the sky becomes pure transition. No clouds needed, no drama: just colour easing into colour with nothing to interrupt the argument.
These photographs are barely landscapes at all. A telegraph line, a rooftop, a hill in silhouette — just enough object to prove the colours were real and not rendered.
Gradient wallpapers went from fashionable to standard for a reason: they flatter everything placed on top of them. These are the original article, with better provenance than any generator.
