Here's how it looked at 5:26, 3 minutes after the actual sunrise time:
There seemed to be an impenetrable bank of clouds at the base of the sky. So I was surprised — after my run back to the parking lot and as I was driving home — to look over and see this at 5:44. I stopped at what I call my Secondary Vantage Point, and got this picture:
On reflection, I suppose that what seemed like a fairly uniform cloud cover was much thicker right at the bottom and thinned out just a little higher. This might be the first time I've seen this happen in the hundreds of sunrises I've witnessed in the last 2 years.
UPDATE: The next day's sunrise explained the mystery of the sunrise you see above. Here's what I saw on July 4th, beginning at 5:30, which was 7 minutes after sunrise. If I had waited a little longer on July 3rd, I would have seen a ghostly pale orange circle breaking over the obstructions on the far show. I quit too early, assuming I'd see nothing, because there wasn't the usual glow as the sun approached that line. I should have stayed a few more minutes. The sun was photographable with the bare iPhone camera at 5:44 on July 3rd because there was sun a heavy haze. That's why it's so orange instead of glaring white.
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2 comments:
MadisonMan writes:
"I'm pretty sure that's smoke from distant fire(s) that's chasing the blue skies away here. Should make for some nice sunrise/sunsets."
Temujin writes:
"What? Wow! What a shot. Did you do any enhancement at all, or was that nature's pose?"
I do the one thing I always have to do: turn the light down.
The iPhone seems to be adjusted to get images of faces indoors.
One thing I basically never do is turn up the saturation. In fact, to my eye, the sun was very orange. I don't think there's a way to get the iPhone to give me what I feel like I'm seeing, so the photos of the sunrise are always a bit of a surprise to me.
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