The Dawning of a New Year © 1999 John A. Lind

• Olympus OM-4
• 50mm f/1.2 Zuiko (MC)
• Kodak Kodachrome 64
• Exposure data not recorded
• DeKalb, Illinois, January 1999
• Woke up before sunrise and went outside to see what the sky was like on January 1st.  We were visiting my aunt in DeKalb.  There were some nice clouds for a decent sunrise shot, so I grabbed the camera and looked for a good, clean distant horizon.  This location looking to the east across a large corn field was less than a quarter mile away.  Took several spaced a couple minutes apart as the sun neared the horizon.  My timing on the colors as they change is not all that great and timing is everything on a sunrise or sunset.  The horizon is deliberately placed along the lower one-third dividing line and the exposure set for the sky leaving the horizon a pure silhouette.  Aimed just off from where the sun would break the horizon as the colors were more interesting slightly off-axis.  This made setting exposure a bit easier also.