{"id":2922,"date":"2020-01-02T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:21:11","slug":"first-sunrises-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":" First Sunrises Through The Years<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s \u00a0Throwback Thursday<\/strong>, January 2, 2020. For our first Throwback Thursday of the new year, we’ll re-visit First Sunrise Photos of New Year’s Days past. I have taken a lot of them in almost 20 years. Unfortunately many of the earlier ones are missing from my Google Photos. Here are the ones I recovered from my archive and Flickr a few months back.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 2, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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These two images are from today, January 2nd, 2020. Yes, it’s the second sunrise of the year.<\/p>\n

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The sun was brighter today. (January 2, 2020).<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The first day of January 2020 is already history. #TBT – 1-1-20<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The sun rose behind the cloud cover on January 1, 2019 just beyond Diamond Head Lookout.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The First Sunrise of 2018 was this blazing ball that I shot with my DSLR camera and 300mm zoom lens. This was at Diamond Head Lookout, \u00a0which for many years have been a favorite sunrise spotting place.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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On January 1, 2017 I made it to Diamond Head Lookout again and shot this filtered photo of the sun several minutes after it rose.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This sunrise shot almost never happened. I took this from the fire escape balcony of Kaiser Medical Center in Moanalua two days after I had open heart surgery<\/strong><\/a>. This was shot with an Alcatel smart phone.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2015.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It \u00a0was a cloudy first day of 2015 when my friend from the Big Island visited and we went up to Diamond Head Lookout to capture the first images of the January 1 sunrise. It was not meant to be. Nice clouds and surf. Ha!<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2014.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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On January 1, 2014 I was in Honoka\u2018a on the Big Island of Hawaii. I got up in the cold morning and drove our car to Honokaa Park where this photo was taken after SOL got up.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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On January 1, 2013 I trekked over to Magic Island \/ Ala Moana Park to get this colorful image of the first sunrise.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2012.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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On the first day of January 2012, it was a beautiful morning for a sunrise to come out of the ocean near Diamond Head Lookout.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2011.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a highly processed, fake HDR photo taken with my old Sony camera on January 1, 2011 from Diamond Head Lookout.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2010.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Diamond Head Lookout is my favorite place to take sunrise photos. This was an image I got on January 1, 2010.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2009<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a cloudy, overcast day on January 1, 2009. This was the only year I did the sunrise photo at Kaka’ako Waterfront Park. I think the reason I went there was because it was raining and I did not want to bother driving to Diamond Head.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2008.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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On January 1, 2008 one of my sunrise photos was taken through this tree at Diamond Head Lookout.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 1, 2007.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This sunrise photo, taken on January 1, 2007 shows the rays projecting through the sky off Diamond Head Lookout.<\/p>\n

All of these photos and many more were once hosted on my old Flickr<\/strong> account. I had to take them and 22,000 other photos down after Flickr doubled its subscription price last year. Now under new ownership, Flickr is struggling as I suspect many photographers bailed from the service after the drastic price increase. The latest promotional email I got from them, indicate that the service is struggling and that subscribers will be seeing a new price increase this year.<\/p>\n

Google Photos which offers unlimited photo storage and back-up is a good deal for most people. The service is free to use as long as your images are 16 megapixels or smaller.<\/p>\n

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