Sunset 12-11-2025 looking Southwest: Photo Lenny “Lensworth” Frieling

Lensworth sunsets here!

December Sunsets  are always familiar and never the same. They are always uplifting and always shifting. When someone says “hey, look at this sunset,” do NOT wait. They change instant by instant and are part of the reason we need a camera within reach. Phones seem especially great for sunrise and sunset pictures.  The lighting on computer screens is also especially good for these glowing photographs. 

Sunset 12-11-2025 looking Southwest: Photo Lenny “Lensworth” Frieling

December sunsets never get old. I’ve tried. I go out night after night thinking, “I’ve seen this one before.” And then the sky politely proves me wrong.

These particular sunsets are all looking southwest, that reliable compass point where the day seems to take a bow before leaving the stage. In December, the sun takes a lower, slower path, and that angle changes everything. Light stretches. Colors linger. Shadows grow longer and more thoughtful. The mountains don’t just sit there, they participate.

Sunset 12-11-2025 looking Southwest: Photo Lenny “Lensworth” Frieling

What makes December special is the air. Cold air is honest air. It strips out haze, dust, and excuses. The result is clarity, and clarity turns even familiar landscapes into something newly revealed. Reds deepen without shouting. Oranges glow rather than blaze. Purples and blues creep in quietly, as if they’ve been waiting all day for their turn.

Sunset 12-11-2025 looking Southwest: Photo Lenny “Lensworth” Frieling

And yet, no two evenings are alike. One night the sky is all fire and bravado. The next, it’s subtle and restrained, pastels layered like watercolor washes. Sometimes clouds catch the light and carry it far beyond where the sun actually is. Other times the clouds step aside entirely, letting the light speak for itself.

Sunset 12-11-2025 looking Southwest: Photo Lenny “Lensworth” Frieling

Looking southwest in December also means watching weather happen in real time. A distant front, a high cloud deck, a whisper of snow somewhere over the horizon. The sunset becomes a forecast, a mood ring, a short story written in color and then erased.

I think that’s why these sunsets never get old. They repeat, but they don’t copy. They remind us that sameness is an illusion, especially in nature. The sun goes down every day. December just insists on doing it with a little extra honesty, a little extra grace, and a quiet reminder to stop what you’re doing and look.

Sunset 12-11-2025 looking Southwest: Photo Lenny “Lensworth” Frieling

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Lenny “Lensworth” Frieling 

Lenny Frieling Pen Of Justice

• Multi-published and widely syndicated blogger and author.
• Most recently published by Amazon, his first book, "Lensworth"a book of his prize-winning photos.
• University lectures at University. of Colorado, Boulder, Denver University Law School, Univ. of New Mexico, Las Vegas NM, and many other schools at all levels. Numerous lectures for the NORML Legal Committee
• Former Judge
• Media work, including starring in episodes of Fox’s Power of Attorney, well in excess of many hundreds media interviews, appearances, articles, and podcasts, including co-hosting Time For Hemp for two years.
• Life Member, NORML Legal Committee, Distinguished Counsel Circle.
• Photographer of the Year, AboutBoulder 2023
• First Chair and Originator of the Colorado Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Committee, a National first.
• Previous Chair, Boulder Criminal Defense Bar (8 years)
• Twice chair Executive Counsel, Colorado Bar Association Criminal Law Section
• Life Member, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
• Board Member Emeritus, Colorado NORML, and prior chair during legalization, as well as pre and post legalization
• Chair, Colorado NORML, 7 years including during the successful effort to legalize recreational pot in Colorado
• Senior Counsel Emeritus to the Boulder Law firm Dolan + Zimmerman LLP : (720)-610-0951
• Board member, Author, and Editor for Criminal Law Articles for the Colorado Lawyer, primary publication of the Colorado Bar Assoc. 7 Years, in addition to having 2 Colorado Lawyer cover photos, and numerous articles for the Colorado Lawyer monthly publication.
• http://www.Lfrieling.com