Photographs Sunup, Iowa Prairie near Waukee, IA

[Barbarian]

 

[Claudya]

The sun looks kinda distorted....

 

[farouk]

The sun looks kinda distorted....

Maybe it's because of the morning mist...

 

[Claudya]

Yeah or the clouds.
(Or something Barbarian did with photoshop, hehe.)

 

[farouk]

Yeah or the clouds.
(Or something Barbarian did with photoshop, hehe.)

I was just thinking; the way to tell the difference between a dawn and a sunset photo is that the dawn one is maybe more likely to have visible mist...

 

[Barbarian]

IIRC, the Sun's disk was not quite fully above the horizon at the time, and the mist became a blinding glare, much greater than you see in this image. Adjustments to dynamic range made it what it is here.

 

[Claudya]

I was just thinking; the way to tell the difference between a dawn and a sunset photo is that the dawn one is maybe more likely to have visible mist...

Yeah, that's true.
And sunsets often have a slightly different colour hue than sunrises. Sunsets have more red in them (although sunrises can be very red, too, but normally they are less red than sunrises).
Some old saying we have here says that a very red sunrise is a precursor of bad weather, because lots of moisture in the air even in the morning means rain is likely, and the sun is illuminating clouds that are approaching from the west that are our future weather because we get our winds from the west most of the time.

Sunrises are very magical (in a good sense) moments. If I were a morning person I'd go watch it every day.

Barbarian, you seem to bet getting around a lot, considering all the different locations from where you post images.

 

[Barbarian]

We say "Red sky at morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailor's delight." Here's why:

In the latitudes of Europe and North America, the prevailing winds are westerlies.

Ans yeah, I get around. But I often cache a lot of images, and only later get to look at them closely. So, often, you see something that happened months ago.

 

[Angel]

Pretty