I was researching USB microphones on my MacBook yesterday afternoon when, unnoticed by me, the wall behind our desk suddenly took on a brilliant pink hue. My wife, ever more observant than her hyper-focused husband, pointed it out.

“What’s the Sunset look like?”

Now, when I’m typically in hyper-focus mode I get annoyed when someone jogs me back into reality. It takes me several heartbeats to readjust and be comfortable with the existence of other humans ¹. The word “Sunset,” on the other hand, meant the possibility of pictures. So I really never came back to reality, I simply shifted from one hyper-focus to another.

I stood up, took one look out the window, shrieked like a little kid on Christmas, and grabbed my camera ². The light was quickly dying in the Winter afternoon so I quick opened my window, hung out and took some photos. It was a great way to end a stressful day ³. I also turned this image into a vector, which I’ll be uploading to OpenClipArt later today.

Nikon D7000 with 18-105mm lens
42mm
ISO 400
ƒ5.0
1/100 sec