Sunrise

[ConsAreLiars]

"After the rain, good weather."
That's the hope, at least.

Somehow sunrises seem to convey a different feel than sunsets. Sunsets often provide stunning displays, but sunrises somehow seem to promise a better day.

As the days grow shorter and the sun rises later, people might want to give themselves a few extra minutes when on the way to work or otherwise beginning the day's routine. Find a nice view of the sky and see what show up. I've enjoyed a lot of Seattle sunrises that can only be described as awesome (and photographed none of them because I'm really not functional in the AM).

But on one occasion while camping with some (insistent) photonuts, I did manage to get it together. Even before coffee and with the early wake-up, the few minutes of morning light get counted among "the things that make you go 'ahh'."

Sunrise from Timberwolf Mountain

[regnaD kciN]

1. Wow...

If I didn't know the source of that image beforehand, I'd swear it was a painting rather than a photograph.

[intheflow]

2. You're so right about sun rises.

The light is different, and they do seem to hold more promise for the future than sunsets. Here's a sun rise shot I took on the opposite coast, from an island off the coast of Maine:



The fleeting golden quality of early morning light in both your photo and mine reminds me of Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay":

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Those are gorgeous, you guys...

Wow! We don't get such really great sunsets where I live because the mountains are on the east side of town and by the time the sun gets up it's pretty much daylight, but sometimes in the winter we get some really nice pink effects on the snow, and since sunrise is around 10:30 it's not much effort to get up to see it. I think that's something I'll work on this winter.

[Mutley]

4. LOL! Whenever I see you talk about how the daylight works

in Alaska I have to laugh to myself. I'm so used to the sun coming up around 6am and going down around 7pm (depending on the season of course) that I think I'd have a very hard time getting used to the sun coming up at 10am and going down around 11pm? :crazy:

[Blue_In_AK]

5. It's worse than that...

In the winter it comes up around 10:30 a.m. and sets around 3:30 p.m. In the summer it comes up around 4:00 a.m. and doesn't set until after 11:30 p.m. and never gets completely dark. It takes a little getting used to. :)

[ConsAreLiars]

6. I once camped for a few 'days' on Norway's North Cape, while the sun

revolved around me at about 10-20 degrees above the horizon. A timeless experience, so to speak. The north facing cliffs are 1000 feet high. Standing on the edge and looking out into the expanse of ocean, it felt like being the end of the world. Especially so when the ocean fog was heavy and looking down was like looking down on an unlimited expanse of clouds.

[Mutley]

7. I would miss the stars!

Baltimore is big enough that I can only see a few stars at night, but those are enough to get me by. I don't know what I would do without my nightly reminder that the universe is infinitely bigger than my own little world.