A Special Concordance

Friday was just like any other day, especially on how it started for me getting out and about to take some aerial photographs of the sunrise. You know, as one does!

Warm weather had settled in, and the sunrise on a Friday morning was like any other. However, I had just happened to take a position where the sunrise would line up behind a local prominence—in fact, the only architecture of note in the entire area.

The pastel colors in the sky greeted the dawn with gentle hues, as on nearly every other day. Some days start seeming ordinary, when you might not be able to tell exactly how a day is going to be special, unlike any of the rest.

It wasn’t just the clouds to the east that were stealing the spotlight from the sunrise, but the clouds in the west reflected more of that light back into the landscape.

But the local star of the show just happened to line up with the highest point to the east from where I could position the drone to take a picture: the Loretto Heights tower. You might recall that tower has being featured here previously, and it was!

Lining up the drone with the subject and background makes for some great tangents and concordances where lines connect. Of course, the best way to think about this is to ask, “How can I make it appear like the tower has ears?” Yes, really. Ears! Now that I’ve mentioned it, you might just see it for yourself?

The sun continued to rise, and the dawn radiated throughout the South Platte River valley and Bear Valley to the west.

While the panoramas above pull back from the subject to give perspective, it can be almost too much to place the sunrise, Loretto Heights, and Bear Valley in the right position. Perhaps the following photograph shares that? Along with the pre-dawn colors of that morning (which were also repeated this morning, and yesterday, in between as well; it has been an embarrassment of riches)!

Just another morning in paradise? Looks that way, to me, each and every morning that they look like this.

The sun rose higher, and I took the opportunity to change drones. While I often use multiple cameras in a single “session,” based on different capabilities or testing doodads (the official, technical term), there are several that can do all that I might require by themselves. Carrying a second drone is usually just a backup, sort-of insurance for the unexpected, although I’ve rarely actually ever needed such.

Using a different drone sometimes leads to different approaches to feature different aspects of aerial photography. Of course, there is one particular type of photo that I feature here at Colorado HIGH SKY prominently: the “Tiny Planet,” of course!

I already shared the following photograph on social media, but I thought I’d close with yet another photo of the local neighborhood, in the glow of the sunrise.

Thanks for reading all the way to the end, and I hope you enjoyed this little photo essay. Let me know what you think!