{"id":4452,"date":"2013-07-13T22:29:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T22:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2013-07-13T22:29:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T22:29:18","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-the-golden-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge: The Golden Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I read the weekly photo challenge to take a photo at the golden hour of sunrise or sunset, I thought, well, I already know about sunset light, so why not make an effort to study the light of sunrise.\u00a0 But to do that I’d have to get up at sunrise on Sunday.\u00a0 I had no intention of doing that.<\/p>\n

Then, this morning at ten to seven, after six hours’ sleep, I woke to see my room suffused with pink.\u00a0 At first I ignored it.\u00a0 Too tired.\u00a0 But I dared to open my eyes again a few minutes later and the light in the room was tinged with reddish purple.\u00a0 I jumped out of bed and raced to find my camera, knowing that coloured light is fleeting.\u00a0 You can see that I took the first photo at three minutes past seven – it took me that long to get ready for my cold back yard.<\/p>\n

The official sunrise time was 7:10am, but Canberra was pretty in pink before that moment.\u00a0 Not really a ‘golden hour’; more of a ‘rosy hour’.\u00a0 When the actual moment came at 7:10, the pink glow had mostly gone, faded to grey.\u00a0 It’s mid-winter here;\u00a0 the temperature was about 6 degrees, a few degrees warmer than usual for this time of morning; the sky today is completely covered.\u00a0 I know the sun was behind these rosy photos but I never saw it.<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise,<\/a>
Seven minutes before sunrise, Canberra, 14th July 2013, three past seven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Five<\/a>
Five minutes before sunrise, Canberra, 14th July 2013, five past seven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Exact<\/a>
Exact official moment of sunrise, Canberra, 14 July 2013, ten past seven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I read the weekly photo challenge to take a photo at the golden hour of sunrise or sunset, I thought, well, I already know about sunset light, so why not make an effort to study the light of sunrise.\u00a0 But to do that I’d have to get up at sunrise on Sunday.\u00a0 I had … <\/p>\n

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