Zero Degree Dawn at Sawhill Ponds

This is a popular place for photogs at dawn and dusk, and bird watchers at all hours: Sawhill and Walden Ponds. Even yesterday morning, before dawn, when my temperature gauge shimmered and shivered at zero degrees, there was already one other brave, bundled-up soul in the parking lot when I arrived. Go figure.

The blue pre-dawn light:

Cold Morning Blue, #1. Sawhill Ponds, Boulder, Colorado, 2014

Cold Morning Blue, #2. Sawhill Ponds, Boulder, Colorado, 2014

Then the subtle pink of the alpenglow:

Cold Morning Blue, #5. Sawhill Ponds, Boulder, Colorado, 2014

Followed by the sun lighting up the Flatirons with a red-pink glow:

Flatirons Sunrise, #2. Sawhill Ponds, Boulder, Colorado, 2014

The distant warmth of a winter sun:

Winter Sunburst, #2. Sawhill Ponds, Boulder, Colorado, 2014