I "cheated" in creating these three photos this morning. I did get up well before sunrise to see what might develop, and I did not give up when I saw the heavy overcast. The first hint of anything interesting was about three minutes after the invisible sunrise, when a huge congregation of seabirds flew across the ocean waters just beyond the breaking surf. The "cheating" is that the light was dull, hardly any color. I have seen this kind of feeding activity on mornings with nice golden light, when I didn't have any kind of camera. So, I decided to "tweak" it in Adobe Lightroom®, and got something more like what I've experienced before. No, it didn't look like this today, except in my imagination. So I guess one could say I "played painter" for the occasion.
A few minutes later, some warm colors did appear through a thin region of the clouds, and a lone beachcomber stood admiring the view for a moment. I again greatly intensified the image, but all of the elements you see were really there.
The last shot is in some ways the most interesting color display that I observed, and it lasted only a few seconds!
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