Venus went through inferior conjunction on April 1, 1993, and then grew very prominent in the morning sky throughout the year, but now she is winding down this apparition and as a result rather low in bright twilight.  Jupiter just went through its conjunction, passing behind the Sun, and is now emerging into the dawn, so we see Venus pass Jupiter on her way down, heading toward her superior conjunction on January 16, 1994.

These conjunctions of Venus and Jupiter are very close compared to others because Venus is on the far side of her orbit and thus her deviation from the ecliptic is less than at other times.  Given the 24 year cycle of Venus - Jupiter conjunctions, the next one of this series would be November 13, 2017, but for some inexplicable reason, I did not get a picture of that event.  The instance of this conjunction series prior to 1993 would have been on November 4, 1969, and the next one after 2017 will be on November 18, 2041.  I hope I'll be alive to see that and document it on this website LOL!  The main challenge with all of these conjunctions is that they occur less than 15 degrees of the Sun, so you have to have very clear skies, a very flat eastern horizon, and most likely zoom in closer than one normally would, in order to easily record the pair.

I took this picture from somewhere up in the mountains just west of Boulder, Colorado, although not exactly sure where; usually I would have driven up to Flagstaff Mountain because there was a good parking area with a clear view to the east, but the tree on the left of my picture isn't one of the pines that were the predominant, if only, type of tree there.  So I'm not sure where this was taken.