I got up and thought the sky looked particularly lovely and so I set up the tripod on the back deck and took a succession of photos about one or two minutes apart. I was in my jammies and it was about 30 degrees (F), so I would press the shutter button (I can’t think of the name of that button…old age…) and go inside and thaw or sweep the deck or tend to the dog, etc. I actually got 36 shots, but didn’t want to post that many. I thought it was a neat thing to flip through and watch the sun rise. But, here are a few photos so that you can get the idea. I didn’t do a whole lot of editing, just color balance, contrast, and saturation. In the last shot, I tried to clone over the feeder showing in the upper right corner, but it didn’t work in the other shots because of the clouds. Anyway, I hope these are worth looking at. Of course, it was much more beautiful in person…

I did shift the tripod over a little halfway through the series, because I thought I was going to miss the sun coming up over the trees. That caused me to pick up the piece of bird feeder. Looking at them, again, they don’t seem so magnificient, but it was a nifty exercise in photography.