A birthday party, a 58th one in fact, for Larry Brauner, and to celebrate he’s running an extraordinary four-day promotional extravaganza. With hundreds of participants, there is sure to be something there to catch your eye.
For those of you visiting from the party, welcome to Around the Island Photography, where I share the stories, laughs and mishaps behind the images for sale in my Etsy shop.
Like this one, for example.
Israeli Sunrise, December 2009
I’d never have gotten this image had I not been too tired to go up to bed one evening. Instead of sleeping in my warm comfortable bed with my warm comfortable husband blanket I’d fallen asleep on the living room couch. Not all that comfortable and definitely not that warm. Instead of remaining happily in dreamland until the alarm went off at 7am I found myself awake, cold, and very grumpy at the much too early hour of 5am.
Luckily for me I glanced out of the window while I was rubbing the sleep out of my eyes and saw the first hints of sun just beginning to streak over the horizon. Figuring that further sleep was already a lost cause I grabbed my camera and headed outside, just in time to capture that glorious sunrise you see above.
Serendipity? Premonition? Dumb luck? Who knows, but whatever it was, I’ll take it.
Now if I could just figure out a way to schedule those glorious sunrises for a more reasonable hour…
gorgeous
Thanks Sarah, it was definitely worth the early morning wake up.
Congratulations on your new blog! Did you take this picture from your rooftop?
Thanks Gilit, and yes, it’s from the roof(top patio). We get lousy views of the sunset but the views to the sunrise in the east are wide open.