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I've made images of sunrises and sunsets all over Florida from east coast to west and never experienced a view like this. The trees had recently been harvested across the unpaved road from our farm which had been rewarding us with a whole new eastern morning sky virtually every morning. On this day, I stepped out into the darkness to walk the 7-8 hundred feet to the where the newspaper is dropped, when I noticed how the light was coming from below the horizon and striking the cloud-undersides in an incredible display of color without the sun actually being in sight. Normally averse to light poles and fences that ruin a good "nature" shot, this time it made the farm setting perfect. The two lone trees break the horizon line as if they were watching, too. Naturally, I turned around, grabbed my camera and forgot about the newspaper. (Nikon 800e, aperture priority, f8, AF-S 14-24mm Nikkor Lens, at 24 mm, with tri-pod, Photoshop used to render the sky and the terrain as close as possible to how my eye saw it that morning.)

