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Capturing The Beauty of Sunrise on Clean Air Day 2023

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The alarm went off at 3:20am, and 12 minutes later I was on my bike heading towards Bushy Park, one of the Royal Parks, to see what sunrise would bring. As it was Clean Air Day, I decided that I would use zero emissions transport, which meant it took me around 50 minutes to get there, hence the early start, to be in time for sunrise.

Photo of the River Thames with swans sleeping on the surface, as the orange glow of the sun rising relfects off the water surface. The trees at the river edge are in silhouette.
Just before sunrise, over the River Thames, Walton Marina, Walton-on-Thames. Photo by Douglas Kurn

I mostly followed the route of the River Thames, from Weybridge to Hampton Court Palace, and one of the things I noticed was there are a lot of flies and midges around at that time of the morning! With it being dark, it wasn’t easy to see them, so my breathing was in through the nose, and out through the mouth. Only one got through!

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