Dusk, the time just after sunset, before the blackness of the night sets in.

Short dusks in the south.

The sailfish statue, a symbol of the town, at dusk, in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.Koh Lanta beach in Thailand just after sunset.The last of a sunset at the beach in front of Daddy’s Cafe on Palau Pangkor, Malaysia. Just after this it became so pitch dark that we couldn’t find where we had parked the motorcycle we had rented. Deep dusk at a golden temple in Bagan, Myanmar. It was quite dark by then, and I’m not sure where that gleam was coming from.
Beer and dusk at Ngapali Beach in Myanmar.
The archeological site of Angkor Wat after the sunset, Cambodia.

Lingering dusks in the north during the summer.

Beach volleyball at Kitsilano Beach on a smokey pink dusk in Vancouver, Canada. The main cathedral in the Grand Place, Brussels’ gilded central square, glows in the last light of the evening (Belgium).Our first day in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a reflection of the long Nordic dusk of late May.This is the sky, still beautiful, two hours after I had been racing down to the waterfront, shooting pictures like mad and shouting, “Hurry, hurry!” (Grebbestad, Sweden). View from our B&B in the village of Roundstone, Ireland. Just after sunset looking out at the industrial area by Amsterdam Marina, Holland. More of Dan’s CFFC: Time of Day: Dusk.