Monday, March 15, 2021

In 19 months of chasing the sunrise, today's was the #1 best.

I gave you some unretouched photos earlier today — here — but let me give you a few more. These are modestly tweaked in Apple's Photos — basically just moving the "Light" slider a bit to the left. The lake has been melting and cracking up, and wind/waves are driving shards of ice to pile up on the shore. 

This is 7:02, the earliest shot, which makes me wish I'd gotten out 10 minutes earlier. 

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What a broiler! 

This was the scene at 7:04, with the shoreline ice looking cobalt blue.

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7:05, framed without the shoreline ice: 

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Here's the panorama:

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This photo is quite a bit later — 7:27 — and in a different location. Beautiful color that I'd count as above average, but drastically faded from 20 minutes earlier. In this spot, the ice was piled much higher. The wall between me and the lake must have been 10 feet high:

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