Sunrise and Pink Clouds by Ric Rosow

Submitted by Ric Rosow

I was on the treadmill getting my exercise in and a photography webinar on my iPad. The sky started to lighten up as sunrise neared. I looked up from my iPad and saw a beautiful array of pink clouds low in the sky. The clouds colored the smoke rising high from the power a light plant pink. I knew I wanted a photograph of that scene. I grabbed my iPad and rushed out of the room, took the elevator up to my condo and grabbed my camera. It was VERY cold outside but I knew I had no time to put on anything over my exercise clothes. I didn't even have time to setup my tripod. Hurrying out to our patio deck I adjusted the settings on my camera and took eight photographs.

While this photograph is a beautiful landscape scene, I missed the best one, which was of course the one I saw from the treadmill. By the time I started photographing the clouds had moved higher in the sky. I went back to the exercise room to finish my exercise routine. When I walked into the room I went over and spoke to one of my neighbors asking if she had seen beautiful clouds over the river. Indeed she had. I told her I missed getting the best shot. She replied that I could get that shot the next morning, to which I replied, no that was a one time opportunity. Sure enough, the following morning the sky was covered with gray clouds and the sunrise was not visible through the cloud cover. There was no pink to be found in the sky. 

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