The dawn, coming up like thunder
posted in Alaska, Photography, Winter |
OmegaDotter had a silver crown put on one of her molars more than two years ago. In the meantime, she has lost baby teeth and gained adult teeth, and her teeth are pushing on each other in various ways. As a result, her silver crown started bothering her, and the night before last she told me as we were putting her to bed that it was poking into her cheek and hurting.
So I called up and made an appointment, which happened to be this morning at 9 a.m.
We drove in through the early twilight. The mountains were just visible against the pink and lavender and purple clouds and the deep blue sky.
It took a little over an hour to remove the crown and put in a new filling (the dotter is very happy that it doesn’t hurt anymore, but sad that her shiny crown is gone). I dropped her off at school. Then I just had to get the camera and try to capture the skies. I drove off to the Valley Resort, on the shores of Lake Suburban Alaska, noticing as I made the turns and peered through the trees towards the mountains that, OMG, the sun was actually rising, and if I didn’t get there soon, I wouldn’t be able to take that picture.
I got there just in time–10:25 a.m. Five minutes later, the curve of the sun was over that saddle, and I would have had to fiddle with ISO settings to keep the sunlight from drowning everything else out.
(Sunrise was officially at 9:55 a.m., but those mountains were in the way.)
