Outer Banks, North Carolina.
I don’t often rise early to catch the sunrise. More often I look for the late afternoon sun. On our single overnight in the Outer Banks, however, we got up early and found a good spot to capture a sunrise along the sandy beaches. In the early pre-dawn, we drove along the main beach road on Bodie Island and found a public access area where we could capture the morning sun as the day awoke. At the parking lot near the beach, several SUVs were already parked there. We parked next to an SUV where its occupants were unloading surfboards from the roof. On this chilly North Carolina morning, they were appropriately adorned in wetsuits.
The gallery of images below documents the sunrise from pre-dawn. Click on an image to enlarge it and to scroll through the gallery.
John Steiner
Journeys with Johnbo 
Beautiful shots, John. Definitely worth getting up early for. 😃
[…] I often convert photos to monochrome, especially for a photo challenge, and an earlier challenge called for a minimalist vibe. Raising the exposure to create a high‑key look and removing the color made the sky nearly disappear. While wave action smoothed the shoreline, the upper beach still held compressed track patterns left by heavy equipment. Those ridges form natural leading lines that guide the viewer’s eye straight to that lone fisherman—even more effectively than in the color version. My original post about Bodie Island is available here. […]