<p>If I had not driven to the sea first, I wouldn't have missed a lovely sunset in the Dolomites, but there was also a surprise...</p>

<center><img src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmTsZToZeFr2c4iGVEfLka8GVaazHJ5NSEba74BRtRSJ7M/2023_02_21_dolomites_thumb_1280x720.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="0" /><br /><br /><h2><em>A missed Sunset in the Dolomites</em><br /><sup>Passo di Giau </sup></h2></center>

<p>As promised a couple of weeks ago, I have once more been to the <b>Italian Dolomites</b> and the <b>Passo di Giau</b> (<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/8G26qphVXxxnqs8L6" target="_blank">Google Maps: Passo di Giau</a>).</p>

<p>On December 8, 2022, a holiday in Austria, I had the funny idea that I could drive to the <b>Adriatic Sea</b> and take some beach photos. My decision was made quite late and so I arrived close to lunchtime in <b>Grado in Italy</b>, of course much too late for sunrise.</p>
<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Adriatic Sea - Grado - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmUJ4EHHru4FnQbxFKCuCuBhuzCHyKKQnsN2ofQ6zXKncN/2022_12_08_italy_grado_3996_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmUJ4EHHru4FnQbxFKCuCuBhuzCHyKKQnsN2ofQ6zXKncN/2022_12_08_italy_grado_3996_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Adriatic Sea - Grado - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Adriatic Sea - Grado - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Adriatic Sea - Grado - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmeBHdbp2ujyGvMrhTjsywvq2b8icGY2F4TNZvZadMVge8/2022_12_08_italy_grado_3988_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmeBHdbp2ujyGvMrhTjsywvq2b8icGY2F4TNZvZadMVge8/2022_12_08_italy_grado_3988_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Adriatic Sea - Grado - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Adriatic Sea - Grado - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a><br /><sup>I think this was the only seagull that wasn't surrounded by many others ;)</sup></center></td></tr></table></center>

<p>It was a little cloudy, but the sun was shining and it was quite warm, so I made a walk on the beach and took some photos from the sea and also from the thousands of seagulls. But because the sun was very high already, I didn't enjoy photographing a lot and thought of another destination ... <b><em>Sunset in the Dolomites</em></b> came into my mind.</p>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmUH9SHevunYQEw2Ke3AJhp7afgfcs8WZcHc2mYjtJnQst/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_3997_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmUH9SHevunYQEw2Ke3AJhp7afgfcs8WZcHc2mYjtJnQst/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_3997_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<p>So, after a long walk along the water back to the car park, I drove north again, but not towards home, but more to the west to <b>South Tyrol</b> and the <b>Italian Dolomites</b>.</p>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmQmtfePbXMJFvGD3Qf1VQsbfhPZb5TXLKrm3zfrGyXPbC/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_3998_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmQmtfePbXMJFvGD3Qf1VQsbfhPZb5TXLKrm3zfrGyXPbC/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_3998_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<p>Because I didn't take the shortest route, it was a long journey on sometimes narrow roads through small villages and over one cool to drive mountain pass of which I have forgotten the name. You want to know why it was cool to drive over this pass? Answer: the road was very narrow and curvy and I love such mountain roads.</p>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmPssAW3p7E4nLbUXHg3xk272WMBvctwd22AzpZFgWR4Si/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4001_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmPssAW3p7E4nLbUXHg3xk272WMBvctwd22AzpZFgWR4Si/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4001_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<p>The final section of my route lead up to <b>Passo di Giau</b> and the road was partly icy and even snowy = very slippery and driving there made a lot of fun.</p>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><b>Monte Ragusela</b><br /><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmVGyYd76u94rjMJktJJrPQxtNHSLVW2Rwbs8mTfcpzwMN/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4003_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmVGyYd76u94rjMJktJJrPQxtNHSLVW2Rwbs8mTfcpzwMN/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4003_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center><center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmYM2amPS87ZWxiiiczdmRSyf8ZqLFtiFFNf5iohXe2ThJ/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_3999_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmYM2amPS87ZWxiiiczdmRSyf8ZqLFtiFFNf5iohXe2ThJ/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_3999_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmV1Pyr7mt3dL229MQSbfpnw7w8R8qVyQgpDp5M1MWz7x1/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4000_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmV1Pyr7mt3dL229MQSbfpnw7w8R8qVyQgpDp5M1MWz7x1/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4000_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<p>When I arrived on the pass, the sun was already setting and I had to find a parking spot first. There have already been a few other photographers on the hill that's marked on Google maps as <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/s8J7FXRYowugJuJK9" target="_blank">Viewpoint Passo Giau</a>.<br />Because I rarely go to places where other photographers are, I drove a bit to the other side of the pass and parked my car on the parking spot where I have been last time.</p>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmRPum99f6HL62r7trY6hL21XboJLsuJJfkR84eSjoKRYi/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4004_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmRPum99f6HL62r7trY6hL21XboJLsuJJfkR84eSjoKRYi/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4004_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<p>I didn't have snow shoes with me and the snow was over knee deep, but I needed to get up to the other hill where no other photographers were, and so I trudged upwards through the snow ... you might even have heard me breathing hard and loud 🤣.</p>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmRRJh54TFJaXehBWjmbcNnXczChS6LT9Eyq6Au3g2pDH8/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4006_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmRRJh54TFJaXehBWjmbcNnXczChS6LT9Eyq6Au3g2pDH8/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4006_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<p>But the sun was faster than me and because the very steep part of the route up the hill was still in front of me, I decided to stop take some photos where I was before the sunlight was completely gone.</p>

<p>I would love to know which version of my snow walk you prefer: the cool one on the left or the warmer toned on the right. The image was taken with my Xiaomi phone.</p>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmasmHmCjg1cqZVnrbuoYiCpieet35vA4pkf4s7AARQw62/2022_12_08_passo_giau_161947_2_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmasmHmCjg1cqZVnrbuoYiCpieet35vA4pkf4s7AARQw62/2022_12_08_passo_giau_161947_2_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmTgib5aNfL2XSNUaNTuXUUouaUE6zuDN2SGtzrfXrRXBU/2022_12_08_passo_giau_161947_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmTgib5aNfL2XSNUaNTuXUUouaUE6zuDN2SGtzrfXrRXBU/2022_12_08_passo_giau_161947_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<p>Somehow I like the images which I certainly wouldn't have taken if I had been there earlier that evening. I like the ones most where's only a kind of snowy desert and the orange sunset sky behind to see.<p>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmNn4XLVFn6WSnyLDuBemq1KmqHSJVbGGcgjaqXw7V6bVy/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4002_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmNn4XLVFn6WSnyLDuBemq1KmqHSJVbGGcgjaqXw7V6bVy/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4002_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<center><h2><em>The Surprise</em></h2></center>

<p>On my way back down to the car I suddenly saw a shine behind the mountains in the east: <b>the full moon was about to rise</b>. I had not known that there was a full moon that night, so I was even more happy ... I had missed the sunset, but was on time for the moonrise ... <em>good luck in bad luck</em> 😀</p>

<center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><b>Moonrise in the Dolomites</b><br /><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmcyWmZyB2eRYDubiYM3AiEeGc3GcdCC7s1s1Lgq4bemCd/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4011_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmcyWmZyB2eRYDubiYM3AiEeGc3GcdCC7s1s1Lgq4bemCd/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4011_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center><center><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"><tr><td><center><a title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" href="https://images.ecency.com/DQmNWh92NxXC2cDKA88uGvxDWr7KSkkqA655Jwp3Sn4d4pg/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4013_3000px.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="width: 95%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://images.ecency.com/DQmNWh92NxXC2cDKA88uGvxDWr7KSkkqA655Jwp3Sn4d4pg/2022_12_08_italy_passo_giau_4013_3000px.jpg" alt="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" title="Missed Sunset in the Dolomites - Passo di Giau - Johann Piber" border="" /><br /><sup>[click for fullsize]</sup></a></center></td></tr></table></center>

<p>That was it for today thanks a million for staying here till the end - I hope you liked the images of my <em>missed sunset</em> and the <em>rising moon</em>.</p>

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<h3>Information</h3>
<p><sup>All photos were taken with the <strong>Canon EOS R</strong> and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, Canon EF 16-35mm 1:4 L IS USM, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 L STM, SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM.<br />If you are interested in the image data, I leave all EXIF and IPTC information stored in the pictures.</sup></p>

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