A fiery letterbox in the sky
I stood with a chilly breeze in my face in the darkness up the Blorenge. I was waiting for the sunrise. I had set my camera up on its tripod and my drone was read to take flight. The eastern horizon was a blaze of orange contained in a narrow band between layer of dark cloud and a shadowy earth. It was like a fiery letterbox in the sky. Behind those clouds the sun was making its way up and illuminating that hidden world in a flaming orange.
As dawn neared the light shone out from behind that heavenly letterbox it caused the upper veil of clouds to glow a red colour.
That gap in the sky was getting narrower. More cloud was moving in. Would I get to see the sun? Thats the sort of thing I was asking myself.
I put the drone up. There was just enough light to get some sort of exposure.
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Then the sun brightly appeared in that gap as if it was looking through the letterbox in the sky right at me. It burned fiercely in the semi-darkness and it reminded me of "The Eye of Sauron" from the Lord of the Rings.
My Sigma 150-600mm c lens was used to take the two photograph's shown above. The lens is wonderful for landscape pictures.
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