Sunrise from Foothills Parkway

     My friends at work like to give me a hard time about how much vacation time I take.  Some people have different strategies for their time off… and I of course have my own; use it.  At the company I work for we have the option to roll a week or sell a week, and anything left over at the end of the year is lost.  My personal philosophy is to never sell time, never roll time, and never lose time.  So, what does this have to do with the sunrise picture above?  Well, in November I realized that I still had some time left and no vacation planned… so I decided to take every Friday off in December and use that time to go photograph.  Several days I got up for sunrises and some days I stayed out late shooting the stars.  Over the next several weeks you’ll be seeing the fruits of that labor. 🙂

    This week’s Picture of the Week was a gorgeous sunrise I had the opportunity to witness New Years Eve morning with a friend of mine, Steve Zigler.  I have been on the Foothills Parkway hundreds, if not thousands of times and have watched many sunrises and sunsets, but I’ve never seen a sunrise from there like this.  It was quite beautiful, and the little bit of snow that was on the mountains was an added bonus.

–Dan Thompson