Photo Observation #1

May 15th, 2016 – 5:20am – Cape Henlopen, Delaware
Theme – Sunrise/Sunset
I took this picture when I was 12. I remembered it as soon as this assignment was mentioned, it was the first time I ever saw a sunrise in my life. The first time I had gotten up that early, me and my friends all woke up at 4am on a beach camping trip to watch the sun slowly rise over the Atlantic Ocean. This picture speaks to me for nostalgic reasons of course, but also there is something very specific and charming about a sunrise. It has a paleness and slight shade over it that sets in apart from a sunset. The line of orange delicately bouncing off the ripples of the morning ocean is stunning. Watching the sand on the beach go from the light gray of the twilight slowly into the soft pink from the glow of the sun was beautiful. It speaks volumes to how light from the sun interacts beautifully with the surfaces of the Earth. There’s something particularly stunning about a light that means beginning.

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