Insomniacs and the best light

Some days you just can't sleep in, and as I get older that seems to be the case more and more. Maybe it's related to the onset of children that adults change their sleep patterns from late nights and later morning, particularly at weekends, to the early morning and early nights that seems to be the norm for me. I was reading some of the flickr comments made by flickr famous Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir from Iceland, particularly the image departure, which features her standing in the water at 3am caught my eye and brain.

However one great thing with waking up early - it's 05:30 as I type - is you get to experience some of the best early morning light that you missed when you were younger. In fact I can almost see the appeal of the great landscape photographers who go out before daybreak, sleep during the middle of the day and then back out in the early evening for sunset. Is that why this early and later periods are known as golden hours, since they are mostly seen by people in their later years? Of course younger people will claim they can approach this from the other tack, ie wake up later, go out to catch sunset, party some, stay out to catch sunrise and then sleep.

The other thing for bloggers is there's a certain stillness and open thoughts before the pressure of the day takes it's toll and then later it all becomes just work.

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