The sky was doing all the work here.
Early morning light had just started reaching into a much darker cloud system, and I became fascinated by how unevenly the color arrived.
Pink and lavender were beginning to appear while other areas were still holding onto cooler blue and gray. Instead of photographing the sunrise itself, I kept coming back to what the light was doing inside the clouds.
That's where the photograph really opens for me.
From farther away, Heavenly Hues is almost entirely about color and atmosphere.
Come closer and you realize the cloud isn't one big soft shape at all. There are illuminated edges, darker interiors, subtle shifts in temperature and tiny transitions happening everywhere.
I think that's one of the joys of slowing down with a photograph.
The first thing that catches your eye doesn't have to be the last thing you discover.
The sunrise was happening inside the clouds.
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