Morning Has Broken

Layering.  Flaming Gorge, in eastern Utah, provides a wealth of settings for amateur and professional photographs alike. With high hopes to camp during the weekend trip, the weather dictated a different itinerary - thus a hotel room in nearby Vernal, Utah. 12 hours earlier, I was perched near this tree, shooting the opposite direction, seizing the equally invoking sunset.  Realizing the fortuitous array of sunrise hues, I returned to this tree, and rotated my tripod east, to garner the sunbeams as they crested the tips of the Wasatch Mountains and Flaming Gorge.  As is perceptible, the Utah sunrise delivered double digit layers of colors for the camera lens.  Single digit temperatures did not dissuade me, as the sunrise and its beauty were worth the adventure.