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On his first trip to the Rocky Mountain National Park, Your Take contributor Chad Dutson captured this shot after Mother Nature surprised him with two sunrises.

Dutson, a wilderness photographer based in Salt Lake City, Utah, took a three-day photo trip in October to Colorado to see the vistas the state had to offer.

On this early morning, Dutson said he and a fellow photographer ran up a trail to catch the pink hues in the sky, but missed them. However, after waiting for a bit, he saw this "perfect" scene and snapped it with his Nikon D800 and Nikkor 14-24 mm lens.

"I felt so much gratitude that I was provided with this second opportunity," Dutson says.

Dutson made his edits in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CC to give the photo a cooler tone, adjust the individual colors to a tone of what he saw in real life. He said it's important to "make the scene appear as you felt it."

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