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It was hard to choose one time of day that I like most. I really find nighttime to be beautiful, especially in the summer, with the star-filled skies and lightning bugs in the field out front of our home, but there is something special and peaceful about the time around 30 minutes before to an hour after sunrise. Just in general, it is kind of neat to be awake and watching the sun actually rise in the morning. It makes me feel like I have a full day ahead of me and I just feel refreshed and calm when I see the sunrise (especially on the beach!). Secondly, as a wildlife photographer, lighting is key. Photographing animals midday can be less fruitful than sunrise and late afternoon/early evening/close to sunset because of the lighting. Midday light is harsh and casts undesirable shadows and blown out highlights. However, early morning sunrise light gives a beautifully rich and warm glow to whatever subject I’m observing and photographing. I decided to depict this light through a collage I threw together of photos taken at Tuesday morning’s sunrise. The subjects are adorable Piping Plovers, a threatened and protected shorebird species in Maine. I woke up at 3:30 in the morning to go watch the sunrise at Old Orchard Beach and photograph these special little birds with the beautiful warm light of a Maine summer sunrise.

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I can’t sleep at night, all my doctors say it’s from my anxiety but I’m not too sure about that. Even if my heart rate is slow and I feel at peace and know that I am very tired due to the four hours of sleep the night before- I still can’t find myself able to go to sleep!

However, I do love the night. If I can’t sleep, why not be creative? I draw my best works at night, I come up with my favorite character designs at night. Right now I’m surviving because of Animal Crossing New Horizons, and at night I come up with the best ideas on how to design my town! The sunset is just a beautiful way to lead into the darkness, and I honestly appreciate it. Heck, I’m usually up to see the sunrise too, but for now I think my focus is more on the sunset.

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I’m a little behind on Daily Create(s) so I thought I would use the recent prompts to get a hold of that. Today’s daily create was a silly one as it asks the creators to tweet about their favorite time of day. Giving the example of “night time is the best time.” To me this is such an arbitrary idea but also posed some interest at the same time. I feel we get desensitized to the times of the day as we experience them so often. Yet some people do go out of their way to try and value these times such as the day, or night.

For my Tweet I chose to pick the time of dusk as I really enjoy all the crazy colors that occur. My family and I live up on a hill so we always get an awesome look of the sunset. My mom and I have managed to capture tons of amazing images from the sunsets we’ve seen. The idea of the sunset can be kinda symbolic as it points toward the end of the day/ the end of a cycle. We’ll eventually return to the sunset only for it to move on once again. It’s interesting how we may capture the sunset now but we’ll never be able to capture the same sunset ever again.

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The Daily Create challenge for June 16th, 2020, was to upload a picture of your favorite part of the day. My favorite time of the day is sunset, closing the day with a beautiful display of the sun’s last rays touching the Earth, casting it’s shadow far and wide until it slowly recedes into the darkness. Sunset has always been a time of day I find peace and mindfulness in, especially at the ocean. For example, when I was going to school at UNE, I would take many trips – as I’m sure many did – to Fortune’s Rocks Beach; this beach is one I love and went to quite often, sitting on the rocky-wall shoreline and watching the waves crash to and fro on the shore. When the sun sets along the horizon of the ocean, it’s one of the most beautiful things from nature I’ve ever seen. The way the sun reflects and glistens on the surface of the water, replacing it’s full spherical shape by slipping what seems like beneath the waves and into the ocean’s abyss. The colors at sunset are also a breathtaking sight to see, from the pinks and purples twirling around that make the clouds look cotton candy-like, to the oranges and yellows of the sun’s rays mixing with the blue sky, all the vanish within a few minutes. Sunset is my favorite time of day, what’s yours?

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