The road out to Bass Point Reserve is unsurfaced. And by "unsurfaced", I mean "best suited to tracked rather than wheeled vehicles". This shot was taken at 07:19, after I had already gone to the end of the track (behind me) and obtained no real images worthy of mention. And since even here, the entrance to the reserve, is a good 40 minute drive from home, you can imagine when I must have gotten up to make the trip.

In addition although the dark clouds seem scattered looking in this direction and the ground appears relatively dry, I had encountered some showers when I was out in the reserve and it would start raining here within a few minutes as well. I took some shots of a sign saying "Bass Point Toilet And Water Amenities" with the rain beating down around it which I intended to be quite amusing but although the rain is visible, it's not clear enough to see without being told what it is which would spoil the pun.

And so I went with this one of the silhouette of me holding the camera in portrait orientation, taking a shot of the road leading into the warm early morning light.

Early mornings, walking through the rain, driving over potted roads all in search of the right light and the right image. Because we're photographers. This is what we do.

In response to the comments below (if you're seeing this on PBase) and for the reference of any future visitors:
- The colour comes not from heat (it was a temperate day), nor from a Photoshop boost. It's just from the sun sitting low on the horizon. The light has to pass through a greater amount of atmosphere to hit us at that time, leading to the shorter blue light waves (which are more vulnerable to scattering than the lower energy waves at the red end of the spectrum) scattering more. Et voila, 20 or so minutes of golden light each morning and evening.
- Yes, I was facing west with the sunrise behind me. Bass Point Reserve is on a peninsula that juts out eastward into the Tasman Sea, so essentially I'm looking inland from the point where the peninsula connects to the mainland.

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