Crayon Sunset · Limited Edition Fine Photography

I hadn't expected much from the climb.

The trek up Mount Sinai from Nuweiba was rough and dry, the kind of terrain that makes you quietly negotiate with yourself about whether this was a good idea. And then we reached the top, and I stopped thinking entirely.

The Red Sea in the distance. Mountains layered into the horizon. Sky and clouds doing something I didn't have words for yet.

I waited after the sun dropped completely, the way I've learned to because the colours don't come out until it's gone. They arrived slowly, on their own terms. Orange, then peach, then violet, soft and unhurried, the kind of palette that looks almost too simple to be real. It reminded me of a child drawing a sunset with crayons, not because it was naive, but because it had that same quality of complete sincerity. No performance. Just colour being exactly what it is.

If you look closely, there's a silhouette in the frame. Someone sitting, taking in all of it.

This photograph exists in an edition of 15. Not because editions are expected, but because some moments deserve to live in only a few rooms.