Early Mornings

This morning, I woke up at 5:30 a.m., threw on some warm clothes, grabbed my camera bag & tripod and headed out the door to shoot some pictures. On the way out, I grabbed a Weinhard's Root Beer so I could wet my dry throat. As I was getting ready to turn out onto Township, I opened it and it spewed all over the place. Luckily, most of it went on the floor with a bit on my jeans and a bit on the steering wheel. I stopped by White Oak Station and grabbed a couple of napkins, then I was on my way.

My destination was Lake Fayetteville. I wanted to capture the sunrise color over the lake. Unfortunately there were no clouds in the sky, but I was already awake, so I thought I'd give it a go anyway. When I arrived, it was still dark, but there was just enough light for me to walk out on the dam and down to the shore. By the time I got set up, there was just beginning to be some color in the sky, so I started shooting. I'm pretty pleased with this shot:


Eventually, the color began to fade, so I packed up and headed back the car. As I was driving away, the sun finally began to rise so I stopped and watched it. It was huge as it came up above the horizon. It's amazing how fast the sun actually rises... it only took about 45 seconds from peeking up above the horizon to fully risen. Unfortunately, my camera was packed away by this time.

It was a photo day for me after all, so I decided to drive around a bit to look for something interesting to shoot. Unfortunately, I was so sleepy that I couldn't concentrate on looking for something to take pictures of. After about 30 minutes of just driving around like a zombie, I decided to head home to take a nap.

I got home around 8:00, talked to Elise and the girls for a while, then proceeded to sleep until about noon!

I went out later to run a bunch of errands and I wanted to shoot some pictures around Dickson Street - particularly the new Legacy Building that is being erected. Unfortunately, I didn't really get any shots that I liked because it is so congested down there that it's hard to get an interesting angle or composition.