More minutes passed from the second personality of this sunrise, the frame of view still deeply zoomed but with a slightly different compositional selection.  The sky had brightened slightly as more subtly bluesy magenta undertones filtered through the palette.  Meanwhile some distant clouds began to block layers of sunlight and adjust the placement of others.  The last personality … [Read more...]

An even deeper zoom from the first personality of this sunrise, with a minute or two of time added, reveals even brighter reds and oranges in a smaller space, and more yellows, with changes in cloud geometry corresponding to that elapsed time.  Tufts and filaments of upper-level virga really stand out nicely against their somewhat darker backgrounds.  This is the sky looking dynamic and … [Read more...]

Every sunrise or sunset has its own characteristic, unique ebb and flow of colors, textures and shapes.  No two ever can be identical.  Even within the same event, the personality of the sky evolves minute to minute, accentuated and differentiated by the necessarily limited selection of view that we make with eyes or camera.  This sunrise, as with most, started in deep, warm reds … [Read more...]