Dawn
 

Despite what the park ranger might suggest, climbing that mountain before dawn is a very good thing.

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Four hours before the tram will even begin operating...

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No crowds of tourists to ruin the dawn. Wonderful quiet.

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Wake up early, drink lots of coffee, grab your camera!

There's this whole world before 8:30am I had no idea existed.

Nice! Where is that?

Here are two of my own from last month. Dawn on Mt. David in Lewiston ME. There was a balloon festival, so it was worth getting up there by 6AM for a good view of the town.

That's a beautiful cathedral.

Yeah, it is. I'm amazed that Lewiston ME was able to raise enough $ to build it. I guess back in the day, this old mill town had some money.

Stone Mountain, GA, just outside of Atlanta. It was too hazy to get a decent shot of the city, sadly.

Nice shot of the balloon and city.

It gives a great sense of the quiet though. I like these shots.

So was the hike a difficult one? You know, not like it was Everest or anything like that, but first thing in the morning hiking is different from hiking when you've had a chance to wake up and start the day with a regular routine.

Stone Mountain is an easy walk up as long as the summer sun isn't beating down on you -- the bare, white granite is very reflective and you'll burn to a crisp. The last 1/8th is pretty steep but if I can make it up, anyone can.

The most difficult part is being confronted with this telephone pole at the start of the trail. I guess you're going to want to spit out that gum before beginning your ascent...

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Better to stick it there than have it stuck all over the granite path going up the mountain.

Please don't further my belief that all Americans are slack-jawed masticators, chewing insouciantly at everything from a funeral to an orgy...

(okay, I've just watched too much MTV One, I know it's not a true reflection of US society any more than Jessica Simpson is a typical American woman)

No, but she has pretty boobies.

a sneak preview of my Iowa commute string
 

Dawn at 12,000 ASL, before dawn below. Mount Ranier.

Sun beginning to set - leaving work...

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Continuing Jester's transition to sunset, here's a pic from Port Orford, Oregon.
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Beauuuuutiful pie!

Wonderful pics.

Pie, you and BigV are really making me crave a trip out west. Drool.

Kitsune, take me with you if you go! :)

I've learned there's no dawn in Chicago. Betting there's no dawn in other metropolitan areas as well.

Wrong. See post #12. Beauty is everywhere, for those with eyes to see. These eyes were traveling to work; during my daily in-city commute.

You may have missed this pretty sunrise too. But you *have* to get your butt out of bed. Dawn's out there--where are you?

Dawn in downtown Atlanta was my absolute favorite time, there. The slow, retreating shadows would generate cool spots in the summer that would create breezes along the streets between the buildings. In many places, it was the only time there was quiet. In the winter, it was always really incredible to wake up early and watch the fog lift and reveal the skyline over the course of two hours or so.

On the opposite side, nothing beats dawn at camp. On the second day of my June roadtrip in the north GA mountains, I awoke just after the sun was up to a strange sound. Crawling out of my sleeping bag in the hopes that the rushing sound was a camp stove getting coffee ready, I looked up to find it was a gas burner overhead!

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I recognize that this is cheating. These are sunset shots from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

How's that cheating? The bird one is very nice.

And Kitsune, I like the balloon one.

Here's a sunset from that same MT David in Maine.

Sunset from Mt. Battie, Maine.

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I don't get up early enough for sunrises, but they sure are pretty.

Just that the original subject was "Dawn," and I was posting "sunset." Sunsets tend to be more colorful (but I don't know why - maybe because there is more pollution generated during the day than at night). Also, it's easier to be awake at sunset than at sunrise.

Oh, and I really like the Mt. David sunset.

I *lurve* sunsets.

I have a couple faves already posted elsewhere... Here's the linky.

I'll try to repost here....

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didn't work... crap.

Beautiful work guys, really nice. Thanks for the visuals.

Lookin' Out My Front Door...

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Ohh. Very nice.

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Sunrise in winter off of my mom's back porch.

Beautiful cold morning, Razzmatazz13. Whereabouts is this scene?

Near central Pennsylvania

Damn.

I now feel obliged to get up early enough one day this week to take a dawn photo...

Early morning - on a cruise.

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jester - which end of the day was that - for you?

It was around 6:30 am - in the gulf waters in January - probably 1 hr behind my normal time (or ahead)

I just wondered if you were getting up or left over from the night before.

my, my aren't we witty......

ok - here's too more

these are prior to the first one

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Catch the green flash on any of the sunsets, Jester?

Sweet clouds on your morning shots, btw. Love the linings.

Bermuda sunset:

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fookin ell!

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Oh god spode! ahahahaahahaha


fries came out my nose :(

Here's mine from Lake Ouachita in Arkansas. I call it Morning Glory.

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Nice shot, pad. Welcome to the cellar.

My contributions. All taken from the 4th floor of my work, East less than 20 miles from the ocean.:

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Last summer in Colorado. It was the morning of the last day at the camp I was working at. We were all hanging out and loading up the buses to Denver airport and happened to notice the sky:

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Dawns here suck. They're just stages of grey. First it's black out, then a twinge of grey, then whiter and whiter till its a dull white-gray outside. The weather usually improves into actual, like, daylight around 10.

However, we have some fairly impressive sunsets around here that i honestly just can not get on photograph. I can't capture the full range of colours and light that I see out there on camera.

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very nice pics, people - including yours Ibram

Are you saying Ibram is not a person? How dare you?

I'm just pokin' at ya here.

Let me see if I can help you out IB (even though I get the feeling that you're not very.. fond, of me). What kind of camera are you using? Metering mode? White balance? Tripod? Shutter and Ap.? All that stuff.

ding, ding, ding - give that man a prize:D

Sunsets
 

Thanks TOG.

I've been here quite a while. I like the Cellar. Anyhoo, I've seen those red/orangey sunsets too. A digital camera operated by the average person, just doesn't grab the intricacies of color that is really out there.

By the way, how do I post a picture, I tried yesterday and just got a thumbnail, no picture. I tried with [img][/img]

here's a couple - sunsets - in Sanibel.


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My pics are all with a digital camera, pocket sized at that.

almost sunset from my front porch
 

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dammit don't know how to do this