This Morning's Sunrise Above Donner Lake

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Another beautiful morning in Truckee, California!

This morning's sunrise was forecasted to be just ok according to the SkyFire app. I woke up early anyway as yesterday's sunrise was incredible. The only problem was that I saw yesterday's sunrise from my deck after Quill dog demanded that I take him out. Missed it!

Today, I was running a bit later than I had hoped so I decided to keep it easy and go to a vista point above Donner Lake that gets cleared of snow for easy parking. The color had started when I arrived so there was no time for snowshoes and a hike.

No problem though, it's hard to go wrong in the Donner Summit area, especially when the colors fire off at sunrise or sunset. The SkyFire app was wrong, I would call this a pretty decent sunset. The colorful burst wasn't a 10 out of 10, but the image is definitely print worthy!

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Shot on a Canon 5DS R with a 24-105mm lens. Stiched panormic photo. ISO 200, f/20, and each of the 17 stiched images were 1/4 of a second long. A tripod was used, but no lens filters this time.

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You can see my Pathfinder in the distance on the left. A nice easy photoshoot location this morning.
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Thank you for looking and I hope you all have a great day!

Scott Thompson
Scott Shots Photography
www.ScottShotsPhoto.com

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What a beautiful picture. I could just eat it up!

I was referring to the picture of the scenery ... not you ... people sometimes get confused on Donner Pass.

!LOLZ

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Ha! Yeah, the Donner Party is definitely appreciated up here. I actually live a short walking distance from the Emigrant Trail that they were on. Hmmm, now I'm getting hungry for lunch...

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Wow, wow that was quite an explosion of colors, glad you were able to capture it, it looks stunning.

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Thanks! I was glad I made it out too. Cheers!

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What an amazing view 😍

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That whole Donner Summit area is incredible. Views no matter where you walk or where you look.

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Great looking sunrise even if you took it from a parking lot 😂 why does it seem a photo is better if great effort is taken to capture it? its so true though.

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True indeed! I always feel more proud of the image when I work for it. But taking it easy sure is nice every once in a while... Cheers!

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