Year of the Sunrise
2023 2024
My name is Bugsy Sailor, and on January 1, 2019 I began a resolution to watch and photograph every sunrise of the year. I sought the sun, but what I found was so much more. So much, in fact, that I have yet to miss a sunrise am still at it.
What started as Year of the Sunrise has grown into a life of sunrise. Since beginning, I have photographed 2,227 of 2,228 sunrises, primarily from the shores of Lake Superior in Marquette County, Michigan.
Along the way, sunrise has slowed my approach to life, stretched my heart, introduced me to love, given spirit to my days, navigated me through a global pandemic, and has given witness to more beauty than I, or any amount of photos, can express. There have been -35º windchills, downpours, thunderstorms, and blizzards, but no matter how gray the day, the sun still rises.
While daily photos have been the tangible output of these sunrise years, it has never been about the photos. It has been about the wind on my face, the sand between my toes, and feeling the sunrise while being present in nature. No photograph of a sunrise is better than the experience of sunrise.
Latest updates:
- Honored to have my work shared nationally on CBS Sunday Morning
- Considering a 7th year of watching every sunrise
- Completed my 13th consecutive celebration of hatsuhinode
- Giving YouTube a try, I’d appreciate a subscribe
- This includes working on a new Behind the Sunrise series
- Experimenting with a concept of SunriseTV
- The streak ends at 1,718.
- Let’s play Yay or Nay! I built a little voting tool to determine which sunrise photos you like best
Follow along
As Seen On
Jan 28, 2022

Sunrise No. 1,124
Wetmore Landing
Jan 29, 2022

Sunrise No. 1,125
South Beach
Jan 30, 2022

Sunrise No. 1,126
Picnic Rocks
Jan 24, 2025

Sunrise No. 2,216
Lower Harbor Ore Dock
Jan 21, 2025

Sunrise No. 2,213
Little Presque Isle
Jan 20, 2025

Sunrise No. 2,212
McCaty's Cove