Golden Sunrise

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These sunrise images were taken when on the way to photograph

somewhere/something else.

I almost had a car accident when I saw these images because I stopped

so suddenlyand swerved off the road to take the shots.

My scanner doesn't do them justice. The hard copies of these images on

photographic paper show a golden glow to the sky and water that looks like liquid gold.

These images prompted me to think of the work of Nova Scotia artist Suezan Aikins.

She paints with gold leaf for some of her work and these images on photographic

paper look like her gold leaf paintings. See her work at http://www.suezan-aikins.com/

The sudden apprehension of these 2 shots takes the act of noticing. This is part

of the reward of photography. The eye develops so that when we are

in the world we notice vignettes of beauty or of interest to be photographed.

Have a noticing-the-beauty-around-you kind of day.

Helen.