I find that the smallest aspects of regular life often reveal beauty that goes unnoticed most days. It is often when we change the environment, when the levels of light have changed, that the idiosyncrasies and discoveries are exposed. Only when it is completely dark does the form and color of fire take a new precedence and become inspiring.
Natural Gas burners have a brilliant and luminous blue color when ignited, and the blue spectrum of light is easily lost when dominated by sunlight or any redder flames. In intense darkness and with a long exposure time, the delicate plasma and energy of the burners seems to fill the space in a way that seems delightful, playful but intense and eternal.
I had also noticed that the ring of the burner seems to reflect a similar affect on the eyes that a full solar eclipse does. When staring directly down on the burner, the ring of flame makes the dark center even more intense and dark, and from an angle, there is even a imitation of Baily's beads like the way the moon peaked during the eclipse.
Beauty is so often discovered in the mundane, it only takes an original or unfamiliar perspective to reveal its nature.