It rained all day yesterday, so it was especially nice to see the sun rise this morning. I didn’t get a photo of today’s sunrise, but thought I would share this shot from two week’s ago.
I was sitting at my computer in my bedroom in the top floor of my townhouse, early in the morning, when I happened to glance out the window. The colors of the sunrise were spectacular in the distance. Although the temperature was close to freezing, I ran out of the house with flipflops on my feet to try to capture the fleeting effects of the rising sun. I searched for a gap in the trees and the townhouses and managed to get this image at a moment after the sun had risen (I missed the peak moment), when the sunlight was reflecting off of the clouds.
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Mike Powell 
That’s beautiful, and worth chasing. I laughed as I read your story of chasing it, because I do that all the time-usually in my truck. I miss them about 98% of the time too.
Beautiful! The light looks painterly, doesn’t it?
You would have laughed to see me running up the little hill in our neighborhood at 6:00 ia.m. n my sweats and flipflops, chasing the gorgeous light, which does indeed have a painterly look to it.
I love that vertical column of colour.
That column of light and color was precisely what caught my attention to when I was trying to get a shot. It was even more beautiful in person.