Sunrise Hour Start to the 2020 New Year and New Decade in America: Freedom Tower of Downtown Manhattan (NYC) and Verrazano Bridge by NY Harbor on 01/01/2020

            HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020 to ALL!!!  This was early in the morning on the first day of this new 2020 year--also the start to the next full decade.  Being along the east coast stretch of America, it was the first morning for our nation.
I often try to get out and do a meaningful photo shoot during special holidays and/or events of significance, and this was certainly one of those telling moments.  Experiencing the first light of the new year and decade carries a special place in ones heart.  The day was par for the course in terms of temperature range--cold, but not overwhelming.  The sun, however, would be mostly covered by the bands of clouds that blanketed the lower skies. So, for the most part, the bright rays of the sun would be quite limited, and then, suddenly, far in the distance the eastern face of the two towers of the iconic Verrazano Bridge connecting Staten Island to Brooklyn would be blessed with the kiss of the golden ray, albeit for less than a full minute before returning to the former still shadowed look.  Given that only a limited area received this beautiful touch of direct sunlight, I imagined that there was a small opening or slit among the clouds to the east of the skyline, allowing for a momentary narrow glow of the sun.  Perhaps this was a visual blessing, for had it been more of the common light where a far greater area would shine, this kind of subtle, but telling beautiful scene would not have been . . .
   

Taken on: January 1, 2020

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