This spectacularly colored, clean-sky sunrise scene really began with a lot of indirect coloration on the same swath of altocumulus and altostratus, just a few minutes earlier. As the sun rose above the Atlantic Ocean horizon, from the cloud-level perspective (not yet, here), the direct rays painted red-orange tones of such brilliance that I was tempted to turn down the saturation knob from the native RAW image, as the scene was very nearly unbelievable. I didn’t, however, because this is how it looked: a sunrise worthy of the best sunsets and sunrises the Great Plains can offer, but instead over coastal Downeast Maine. WIthin a few minutes, the scene would evolve a little in texture and turn a brilliant orange.
5 NW Bar Harbor ME (4 Oct 22) Looking E
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