Pretty self-explanatory: three shots of dawn in Acadia National Park, from the cliffs below Blackwoods Campground, looking at Otter Point—a camping experience I’m keen to repeat next summer, since it’s been a while.
I don’t know that I’d repeat taking pictures of sunrises or sunsets in most locations, because honestly it’s a cliche. I remember when I used to look at several photography sites all the time, including Flickr, and the sunrise/sunset image of a scenic place was effectively algorithmic, created by human beings only in a purely technical sense. Everybody was following the same rules, shooting from the same place, going for the same control of light, and getting mindlessly upvoted for doing a basically decent job. The same location with more interesting light (winter light, light on a stormy day, light on a dreary day, washed-out light) and it didn’t matter how good the shot was, it wasn’t going to get the upvotes. It’s a good learning experience, but it’s the kind of thing where I’m not sure why we like the images, in the end: because we’ve been trained to? Because most of us aren’t up at dawn and it feels novel? Because the light really does provide sharp definition due to its angle? Because the “golden hour” is just a genuinely pleasing color to see?
Though I’d add that I really enjoyed being up at dawn in all the places I went to take those shots—it’s just you, the world, and the other photographers and early-morning exercisers. Well, in a few cases, you and some pretty weird and threatening people who were out all night in the place you’re at (like the crowd of 10+ central Pennsylvania teenagers smoking weed who’d been hanging in the parking lot of a scenic state park since 8pm the previous night).
(I may have posted one or more of these before, by the way. Sorry if so! I need to keep closer track, given that I've shared more than 100 photos in two + years of doing this.)