The tree does the framing. Its branches reach right across the top of the frame and down through the middle, so the sunrise has to be seen through them, and the three photographers on the sand, tripods up, are the scale. A few minutes after the islet frame, a few metres along the beach, and the colour still climbing.

Under the Pōhutukawa
Auckland, New Zealand · March 2020
1D X Mark II, 28 millimetres, f 22, 15 seconds, ISO 100