Sunrise

I had the good fortune to be miles from home and wide awake enough to witness 2 sunrises this week.

I pulled out of my driveway at 4.47am on Sunday morning, a trip planned at the last minute, I think it was 10pm the night before, a quick day trip to see my parents and help out on the Farm.

It was exactly 6.27am and just east of Cressy, on the Hamilton Highway, when the sun came up behind me. I stopped by the roadside and set up my tripod in the long damp grass on the embankment between the road and the rail tracks…  and captured a few moments… 

 

 

 

My quick day trip turned into 12 hours of farm work and by the time we were finished, I was beyond tired and incapable of driving the 2 hours home again. So the second sunrise was the following morning. The birds woke me at about 5.30am and from then on no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t sleep. I even tired putting a pillow over my head, but i gave up in the end and dragged myself out of bed, grabbed some toast and my camera bag, jumped in the car and went for a quick 3 minute drive to go and play in the wheat.