Self regulating clock?

I’m not sure if my body is preparing me for our return to Germany, but I woke up at 4:45 this morning full of energy. I contained my enthusiasm until around 6:00, at which time I headed to the beach to to watch the sun rise. The sunrise was beautiful, but not exactly awe-inspiring in a photographic sense. The sky was fairly clear to the East, which makes for pretty boring pictures. I like the laser beam effect of the last shot.

A lady down the beach doing her morning yoga somehow captured the serenity of the moment. It was ironic that the really cool shot was behind me the whole time. One of the houses on the beach has a reflective coating on its windows, which was capturing the colors of the morning sun beautifully. The effect was a bit surreal. You can almost see the bottom half of the sun in the reflection. I took some HDR shots (below) to exaggerate the effect a little. I really like them, even if they’re a bit over the top (the first one is also a vertical panorama). I then took a few shots of the lagoon before heading to the bakery and then home. You can see a bit of my father-in-law’s house – it’s the yellow one near the center with brown shutters. The Atlantic Ocean was directly behind me.This small area is now a protected park, so the view should be preserved for a long, long time.