Week 1: It definitely happened

I drove back to Irvine on Monday morning of week 1, and that meant that I got to see the sun rise as I travelled south. I did enjoy it, and I stopped along the 5 to snap this on my phone.

(Please note that, although I have posted more than one sunset in the past, this is a sunrise. So there.)

I liked the contrast in the lighting here - the contrails from the aircraft are bright, as is the sunlight that seems to be almost invading the darkness of the clouds and the land.
There's also some variation in color here that I love - I've talked about sunset colors before but I think that the grey here is especially powerful. In another context it might be foreboding, but the way that the light seems to be gradually spilling into it, illuminating the shadow, makes it a powerful balance instead.