Newtown Sunrise

It really was a stunning sunrise and I only wish I had made more of an effort to capture it in all of its glory.  In the end I drove out about half a mile to the car park of a local pub that overlooks fields and cobbled together this image.

I've seen this type of sunrise on only a few occasions in the last 7 or so years on Blipfoto.  A front lies to the west, with this band lying along it, the rising sun in the east under lighting the cloud to create an intense pink shade. 

Technical: it was a really difficult scene to filter on the camera and subsequently process afterwards.  In the end I bracketed exposures as the lightest area was to the left of the band of cloud and darkest was the foreground.  The mist lying in the field proved to be a complicating factor.  I now tend to use the local adjustment tools in Lightroom to finalise the image, whereas in the past it would have been a Photoshop job, but the introduction of range masks makes it much easier to apply adjustments to the specific areas needed now days.