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π· 6:57am This is more than enough for me….
Current Conditions 7:15am 55ΒΊ Calm, cool with a not-unpleasant dampness in the air. Pale blue skies slowing fading in over cotton candy sunrise
Wouldn’t be a photo post of mine if there weren’t trees…
π· 6:51am Catching the world between sleeping breaths; that moment before everything starts again…
Turns out my camera is particularly ill-suited to capture the quality of light right before sunrise. Like a vampire not appearing on film, or the fae slipping out of frame right before the shutter clicks, maybe this is something not meant to be captured.
And yet I still make this record, snap these shots. But this is a record of my experience. And the record is not the experience. It will have to be enough for me to see this picture, and to remember. And for you to see it, and imagine.
Conditions, 7:15am: 49ΒΊ Solid cloud cover but with some feathery streaks of leftover dawn. The true sunrise bleeds brightly along the horizon line like a wound seeping through the trees. Calm, wet air. Birds are waking up with morning vocal exercises. Squirrels stretch and warm up for their day of calisthenic mischief and larceny…
π· 7:11am
Left around 6:30am, which was a tad too late to be “ideal” but sunrises are getting later, so this is a problem that should solve itself…