It was a spare-of-the-moment decision before bed last night; the forecast looked promising for a decent sunrise, the sun is rising (sorta) in-line with the canal near the white bridge, and I haven’t been sleeping well. So, as I was laying in bed I decided that I would head out and see if I couldn’t make the most of it.
When I awoke and looked out the office window an hour before sunrise, I only saw clear skies, but the radar said that clouds were on their way and approaching from the south west (not the north, where my window faces), so I stuck with my plan.
I had a hat and gloves this morning, but I was under-dressed otherwise and my toes would remain cold for another hour after coming home. Even so, it was worth it.
Unrelated to photography, it is the opening weekend of shotgun-season and I wish that I had my camera out when I drove past a truck parked on the side of the road (the vehicle of an apparent hunter) with a doe grazing at the side of the road just off the truck’s back bumper. I smiled thinking of how the gentleman who owns the vehicle was sitting up in a tree, cold, waiting for a deer to move through his field of view … 3 hours later he would get in the same pickup and drive home empty handed, never knowing that the deer he was looking for was eating near his truck all along.
When I first arrived to the white bridge, the air was still and there was no movement in the water at all, making for some wonderful reflections.
As I have done in the past, I struggled with the composition here. There is lovely symmetry as I look in the distance, but it is interrupted by tall reeds/grasses in the bottom of left of any composition, which also then cover the reflection of the tree that is of interest on the left side of the frame. I can frame an image with a telephoto-view, which I did, but (again) trying to do something with the foreground to make a nice image with some depth continues to be a challenge for me. Even so, the skies provided some interest, even if there was a gap between the horizon and the cloud cover, and it was nice to get out for a short while and make a few images.
