Thursday, December 18, 2014

Interesting Sunrise

We had a very interesting sunrise on the second sunny day of the last month, about a week ago.  It started out with a large grey bank of clouds in the east that I would describe as snow clouds, and I thought we'd see no real sunrise.  But then bands of faint pink appeared on a higher level of clouds above the grey cloudbank.


As I watched it became obvious that the grey clouds were disappearing in the east, but higher level clouds were coming the opposite direction, towards me.  The pink clouds turned white, and others in the background started turning orange.

These clouds were moving fast to the northwest; this and the picture below were just a few seconds apart.

But then the sun rose and it became to bright to get a good picture.

And a closer look shows even more interesting colour as the sun nears the horizon.

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18 comments:

  1. Wonderful series, beautiful country where you are.

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  2. Truly wonderful, and the colours change so fast, you captured it all perfectly. Jean.

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  3. Lovely sky shots. I like the mood and feel in your photos.

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  4. wow looks very cold there, whereas it's very hot here...

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  5. Your sky put on quite a show!! Great series of shots.

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  6. Lovely . Hoping to see some sunshine Fri and throughout the weekend ! Thanks for sharing , Have a good day !

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  7. Always worth taking time to watch sunrise and sunset - every one is different.

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  8. Fabulous pictures of a beautiful sky. Thanks for sharing your sky with me today. :-)

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  9. Wonderful winter colours.

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  10. You know I have always thought a sun rise is so much more spectacular than a sunset. Problem is, I'm a night owl sort of gal so rarely see it rise! Beautiful blues and oranges.

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  11. The campaign is to represent an infinite immensity of light and infinite

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  12. Beautiful winter skies. Warmer than the weather. :-)

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  13. Gorgeous sunrise! Thanks for sharing it.

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  14. Really beautiful. great captures!!

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  15. Nice! Things change SO fast at sunrise, even without fast moving clouds.

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