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Pic of the Day #497

With the conclusion of the Greece series, I’ve decided to take some time to clear out what can only be called a backlog of good pictures that have been waiting for an opportune moment to come along that they might be posted. Some of them date back quite a number of months, in fact…such as this shot, which I took back in September of 2007.

This is a view of the sunrise along 34th Avenue in Edmonton that I took while walking to work. There was precious little in the way of traffic at that time of morning — only one car is visible in the shot — and so I was able to pause in the middle of the roadway to get the shot.

It’s got everything I look for in a sunrise; yellow and orange fiery colours, lower-level clouds for contrast, and higher-level clouds for decoration. As an added bonus, most lines in the shot converge right toward the Sun.

Edit-wise, I applied the Direct Positive preset in Lightroom, and then cleaned up a bit of chromatic aberration from the shot (around the trees, mostly). It’s nice when a shot requires very little in the way of editing.