Sunrise

Above, Early Morning, October 3, 2017, 6:28 a.m.

“If you make a practice or painting a sky every morning with the regularity you take your bath, you will find at the end of six months that you know something of its variations.”  Alfred East, Landscape Painting

October 1, 2017, 6:43 a.m.

October 2, 2017, 6:41 a.m.

October 3, 2017, 6:36 a.m.

My cell-phone paintbrush…  These three photos were all taken from near the same spot, on three consecutive days, at about the same time, in the forest preserve. The photo at the top of the page and the one just above were taken on the same morning, eight minutes apart. In those eight minutes, the sun had risen. How different each day is, and how fast the world changes…

For a view of this same landscape on a misty morning, see “Uphill in Fog,” a short piece I read for the 31st volume of the Short Nonfiction Collection

See more sky photos at “Painterly Skies.”