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Early morning — City Park, Denver

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Dawn in downtown Denver.

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An early winter scene in the Gore Range, Colorado.

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Dawn, Ten Mile Range, near Frisco, Colorado.

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It is easier to get up in the morning when this kind of sunrise is there to greet you.

Downtown Denver, 7:12 AM, Monday, Oct 24th

• Monday: High 82º, sunny, light breeze
• Tuesday: High 62º, rainy, moderate breeze
• Tomorrow: High 32º, 8” of snow, breezy
• Weekend: Back into the 60s and sunny.

Welcome to the Rocky Mountains.

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Dawn over a foggy Napa, California.

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A hot air balloon “lands” in a vineyard on a misty Napa Valley morning.

To land, the balloonist hovered just above the grape vines, and using ropes, the balloon’s chase crew guided the balloon over to an area where it was safe to deflate it.

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Cool, foggy morning in Denver.

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A shaft of morning sunlight illuminates the surface of a calm Lake Dillon while dark, gathering clouds portend the first major snowstorm of the season in Colorado High Country. Higher elevations are predicted to get 14” to 24” (356 mm to 610 mm) of snow. 

Near Dillon, Colorado.

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The sun rises while the moon sets on East Beckwith Mountain.

In the vicinity of Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado.

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Mountain moonset in the Gore Range of Colorado.

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Morning panorama of Lake Wakatipu from the end of the pier in Queenstown, New Zealand. This is from 11 photos stitched together. Please click the photo to enlarge it.

Kiwis (New Zealanders) sleep late. Wherever we went, there was usually no one around when I was shooting early morning photos. Hmmmm – perhaps there’s a lesson here.

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Morning on Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand.

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Haruru Falls on the Waitangi River near the Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand.

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A boat heads out of the Auckland harbor early in the morning.