So since I happened to still be awake at 5 am, I decided to stay up longer and go take pictures of the sunrise from dinosaur ridge. The objective was to try and recreate the picture below with the newer camera in raw format and play with some HDR editing to even out the bright sky and dark ground.



It was SO not worth it. No clouds to make it interesting, it was about 10 degrees out, and I was tired and hungry. I probably could have gotten better results if I had stopped at red rocks on the way out and taken some pictures there, but I was too hungry to stop.

But here's the interesting thing: when I got home, I realized that my apartment could have burned down while I was away and I would not really have lost anything. In the car I had my camera, the new macbook (with almost my entire picture collection), ipod (with the important bits of my music collection). I happened to have my bicycle, and even a couple weeks worth of clothes because I'd been doing laundry at my parent's house.

I guess the biggest thing I would have lost would be what data is on my desktop that i haven't moved onto the mac. Which is primarily old school projects that I haven't looked at for years.

Conclusion: If all my worldly possessions fit into my car, then I have too much junk.