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1½ inches thick (3.75 cm)
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Artist Matthew Parry Platinum Member
Collection Hawaii
Description In 2003 I watched the sunrise from the exact same spot, except this time they had built a stone wall outside the observation shack. I was better prepared this time: a sleeping bag, a down jacket, gloves, a beanie, and a better camera. I drove up the winding road after midnight, going to fast through the clouds that hid black-and-white cows standing on the pavement. When I arrived there was only one other person there and the Milky Way beamed down on me like swirling Christmas lights. I tried sleeping, but it was still too cold, my body had already adjusted to seventy degree weather not below freezing temperatures, so I hardly slept. I went out early, the parking lot was already full and waited for the sunrise. I took photo after photo as my fingers grew numb, two of them tingling from an encounter with frost bite as a child, but I waited. The sun came up and I was disappointed. It wasn't as rewarding as the first time, I wasn't able to recapture the feeling of 'Sunrise Above the Clouds' but then I realized that it was a new day with a beauty of all its own. I put my camera down, jammed my thinly-gloved fingers into my pockets and watched.
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