It was dark, really dark and very cold following some early snow storms in the High Sierras. You could see the Milky Way though holes in the distant clouds and to the East it was perfectly clear. I had setup to shoot the Big Dipper over the tufa formation known for obvious reasons as Shipwreck when the light first began to appear. The clouds were still far to the west so it looked like a bust for shooting the sunrise but the sun almost seemed to wait for conditions to improve before it began casting the first pink light on the most distant clouds. But once it started it went fast. Within minutes the clouds burst with color and reflected in the lake. The sun finally began to peak over the distant mountain range then the color was gone a few minutes later. But then sunrise wouldn’t be so fantastic if it lasted all day long. Unless of course you had just spent 8 months of dark in the arctic.

© Darvin Atkeson
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Make:	NIKON CORPORATION
Model:	NIKON D800E
Exposure:	4
Aperture:	f/20.0
ISO Speed:	200
Focal Length:	24 mm
Lens:	24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8