Occasionally I get lucky and get to watch clouds at sunrise transition through the full deep red (“burgundy”) to orange to yellow color changes. This was such a morning, with the clouds taking on color a full 40 minutes before the sun rose. Matching the colors to names used for their various shades can be a fun exercise (facilitated by web searches of course). This blend of orange and red matches “coquelicot,” taken from vernacular French for the wild corn poppies (Papaver rhoeas) that grace fields in northern Europe. The blue sky provided a lovely complement during this color transition. This morning was relatively warm, right around freezing, with a mild westerly breeze that removed the humid inversion that had given us freezing fog the day before.

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Make:	SONY
Model:	ILCE-7M3
Exposure:	1.6
Aperture:	f/13.0
ISO Speed:	100
Focal Length:	45 mm
Lens:	FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM