Sunrise

[happ]

There is a different quality of light & clarity to the air at dawn

Mountains add a dimension of space to the countryside

[happ]

Urban yet open [i'd be unhappy downtown

Photo's taken this morning.

More sunrise shots or sunsets please    [Robbin/Dick/anyone/everyone  

[Walter John]

Took these pic last Saturday morn, showing next doors alexander palms at sunrise.

[Walter John]

Over my house

[happ]

Beautiful shots, Wal    I'm trying to photograph the earliest light of day but end up with opaque light circles in the pix  

[JakeK]

Sunrise is my favorite time of day, but most times I'm already at work to see it. Nice photos though.

[Kris]

Dear Happ & Dear Wal  

Lovely stills of a perfect moment.i love your stills but i love the night stills.since its more tranquil than sunraise.since i will

have to go for the early morning jogging really very boring when you are jogging alone !

great stills & lovely set of lenses..

love,

Kris  

[waykoolplantz]

an older pic...fog coming off my pond

I like early mornings as well as the golden glow of later afternoon

[Kris]

Dear WayKool  

thanks for that lovely still and we can see as many stills of that beautiful garden,and iam shure that all share a similar opnion of your heven.

Love,

Kris  

[SubTropicRay]

Great stuff.

[ruskinPalms]

Well here are some pics taken at sunset the other day after a little storm. I was trying to play around with some low light photography:

[ruskinPalms]

couple more:

[ruskinPalms]

A couple more:

[Kris]

Dear Ruskin  

Fentastic stills and i really loved it ! and the camera seems to be a terrefic stuff too.

thanks & love,

Kris  

[GREENHAND]

from my back yard

[Al in Kona]

It's a rare occasion for me to ever be up to see a sunrise but we get great views of the sunsets from our house and I will sometimes snap a pic of the better ones.  Will share this one I took that had a very blue/pink combo.  BTW, our sun sets tonight at 6:52pm and will rise tomorrow morning at 6:05am.  How does that compare to where you live?

[ruskinPalms]

Nice pics everyone. Especially love that ocean shot Al and that shot over your house Wal. Keep them coming. I love the beginning and ending of the day. A couple more from tonight.

[Kris]

Dear Green  

very nice still and i love the effect.and that washy i presume is

feantastic.

Dear Al  

i love the shades,very picturisque...

Love,

Kris  

[Scott]

WayKool - I'm thinking calendar pic here.....

[happ]

Bill/WayKool & others - those photos are unbelievably beautiful and demonstrate the kind of cloud/sun formations that Florida is famous for  

Please keep the photos coming.  It would be great to create a palm sunrise/sunset calendar of photos from worldwide gardens.  

[Scott]

Bill - Those are really beautiful.

[ruskinPalms]

One from tonight:

[Scott]

Maui 1983....

A new day dawns in the Caribbean, 1979

Shortly after sunrise, in the Pacific that same year

[ruskinPalms]

Hey Scott, beautiful pics! The last one is especially interesting. I don't really get many good sunrises here in the summer, but sun set is usually quite nice. I few shots from tonight:

[ruskinPalms]

Tonight's oil painting.

Closeup:

[ruskinPalms]

Some cool pics from the archives.

Sunset in Waikiki:

Sunset in Maui:

[amazondk]

Yesterda morning I left the town of Rorainoplis, Roraima where we have a lot of business around 6 AM to drive the 300 kms north to Boa Vista for some meetings and then to catch my 2 pm flight back to Manaus.  Rorainopolis is about 1 degree north latitude.  So, there is virtually no variation in sunset and sunrise times.  Just as I pulled out of town on the pothole pocked highway BR 174 the big red sun was rising over the forest to my right.  I remembered this thread and stopped to take some pictures.  I used my cell phone, a Nokia N73 that I just aquired.  It has a 3.2 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeis lens.  I am very happy with the phone as it allows me to put two pieces of equipment into one.  Not that I do not use my regular camera, it still takes better pictures.  But, I am quite pleased with the cell phone camera.  It also has very good software and also has smart phone functions.  I love both sunrise and sunset, anywhere on Earth.  Here at the equator both of these events are very fleeting and last a very short time.  But, they are frequently a lot packed into a short show.  The rainy season is winding down in this area and there are a lot of nice clouds around.

The pictures everyone posted above are real striking.

Dawn sun over the Rain Forest.

I stopped a few minutes up the road when the sun in the Attalea maripa palms struck me as the sun was behind them.

And, since there is some mention of sunset as well.  This scene caught my eye the evening before as I drove from Nova Colina some 50 kms south of Rainopolis.  The light hit his meadow so nicely that I had to stop and take the picture.  The tucumã (Astrocaryum aculeatum) with a termite nest on the truck in the forground casting it's shadow eastward toward the grove of Attalea maripas.  And, the cows were leaving the pasture in the back corner.  This time of the evening driving on this road you see parots and macaws flying across the road all the time as they go back to their night time roosting areas.  I was buzzed by two beautiful blue and gold macaws a short way up the road form this picture.  The golden light illuminated their under bellies as they flew at low level in front of my car maybe 10 meters up.  I tried to get a picture but the moment was just to fleeting.  The macaw is one of the most beautiful birds in flight, and also one of the noisiest.