The brightness of a sunrise

While taking an early morning walk in a town in the US, I was walking around with a camera. It was bitterly cold, not below freezing, but with a slight wind which was making it difficult to walk around with the hands outside the jacket pocket, so taking a photo was a bit of a challenge.

The sun was bright, but since it was still rising, it was not so bright that one could not look at it briefly and take a snap of it. Given that I usually like to take photographs of the sun with something interesting happening through the sunrays, this photo is one that I really like.