/ 2025 / Nature / Sunrise / Sunset

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  osami takeda, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  2025.5.1
• Instagram
  @osami_takeda

This is not a dramatic sunrise.It is a quiet moment—the kind that slips past unnoticed unless you are there, watching, waiting.In my hometown in Niigata, Japan, mornings begin with a hush.The sun does not rise to dazzle, but to gently remind us:
Light returns. Every day.