The Quality Of Light

During just about a decade of photographing Sunrises in the City of Chelsea, and around the Metro Boston Area, I have started to become a connesuier of the colors likely to show up In each of the seasons, as well as where the sunrise is on its daily path moving along the horizon between the Solstices, and how these two factors, plus weather systems, produces different colors and vividness.

This month and leading into March is full of oranges, blues, and pinks. This photo set, taken on the Chelsea Creek at the Slade Spice Mill where the Mill Gates and Its de-activated Turbine juts the building out over the Chelsea Creek (its wooden frame built into the riverbed), came up these blues and oranges when the Sun broke above the Forbes Island Old Lithographic Factory. It's spills out like a rich carpet, and with such warmth, that the geese sit on the light's path, moving & re-settling as the shadows creep along. Winter has its warm spots and bright lights that feel almost blinding as it often follows days of skies all shades of white and payne's Grey. There is always this one day, like the day I photographed the Creekbed, where I keep hoping to replicate it the next day. But, of course, this spinning orb can rarely co-operate except to have changes that may remind me of the day or year before. 

Today's photographs at Sunrise were full of Pinks, and so much warmth that my cats kept calling me as they studies the light together. Living with me all these years when pre-dawn is our day's start; their human mother then snapping, and sitting at the windows as sun breaks, they too, watch it with me now. By then, they and I have had their breakfast and afterwards a 3 hour nap settles us back into sleep. A friend once told me she had read a study that made a connection between us seeing the daily sunrise and better weight control, but we also talked about the Mysticism of the light and how to celebrate it. Mine is to take photographs of it. Lots of Amens in that hour.

I wish you All a day where how you are about to spend is what your spirit truly desires; not all of us made to Sunrise. do no harm, and leave this world a better place.