5:50 am

Just look what Blip has done to me! I would not have done this six months ago......

Today Blip had me getting up to a 5 am alarm, set specifically so that I could head to the beach to photograph the sunrise at 5:50! This was way too early for my body to be happy about.......Anyone who knows me knows that this is not the end of the day that I function at my best, I am most definitely a night person! Anyway, the forecast was for cloud after the first three hours of daylight and sunrise is only going to get earlier, so I grabbed a flask of green tea with lemon, hopped into the car and headed off to brace the near zero temperatures at Sandbanks.

I'm so glad I did.The beach was calm and windless and I was almost alone - bliss! Just a guy setting up some fishing rods, who seemed oblivious to the changing colours in the sky, and another wearing huge head phones, talking to some invisible person  - hopefully on his phone! :)) Oh, and a tractor driver raking the long stretches of sand.

For the most part, there was little between me and the sun, except the sea, but I climbed a small sand dune and shot this image through the grasses. It was one of the first photos I took but remains one of my favourites.

If you'd like to see the best of the rest, they are here in my 5:50 am album.

Day 31 of Blipout2015, suggested by PaulFS,  making the most of the daylight by only blipping outdoor photos until the clocks change in October.