Brad dragged me out of the house on a recent, very cold morning to take some photos, which turned out great. I didn’t love getting up at 530am, but we had a good time. Big thanks to Brad.
I captured this photo on the Clemente Bridge that morning.
Playa Sunrise
I hope you’re having a great weekend. This is one of the many great sunrises we had in Playa del Carmen Mexico.
Layers Of Water
I took this photo a few months ago during sunrise at the Point State Park. The water fountain at the “point” can make for some great photo opportunities throughout the day. Plus, you have the river in the background, which adds another layer of depth to the photo.
Downtown Pittsburgh Hyperlapse
Here is a short drone time lapse video (what DJI calls Hyperlapse) of downtown Pittsburgh from the Fort Pitt Bridge back down the Allegheny River. I captured this last Sunday morning before sunrise.
Early Morning
As I’ve said before, I often get up very early on vacation to photograph the location (resort, beach, ship, hotel, etc…) before the rest of the tourist wake up. That was the case with this spot as well. I wanted to capture this spot without anyone in the way.
This is from a resort north of Cancun Mexico from last February.
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Fort Pitt Bridge
I took this photo of sunrise in downtown Pittsburgh a few months ago when I was out with Brad and Blair. I used my DSLR camera to capture this, but I also took a ton of photos with my drone that morning. I still take more photos with my DSLR camera, but increasingly I take more and more photos with the drone. I hope your weekend has been great and that you enjoy what’s left of your Sunday.
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Early Morning
You’d think with tons of photos to choose from, I’d have an easy time selecting a photo to post. Honestly, sometimes I struggle with the selection. I think my struggle comes from doubt about whether any of them are worth sharing. I’m never very confident with their quality or appeal. Unfortunately, I let self-doubt creep into my thoughts. With that in mind, I hope you like tonight’s photo.
I took this photo from the West End Bridge looking back at downtown Pittsburgh very early in the morning. Have a great day.
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Magical Morning
I was fairly lazy on our last trip to Mexico, but I did get up one morning for the sunrise. Thankfully, I got an amazing show that morning. Here is one of many photos I took starting about an hour before sunrise going about 30 minutes past the sun coming up. As you can see, it was a magical morning.
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Morning Sun
The beauty of waking up early for a sunrise is that normally I’m alone. Or mostly alone. The popular beach is abandoned. The resort pool is vacant. The Lido deck on a cruise ship is quiet. You get the point. It doesn’t seem to matter where we travel to, I can count on this phenomenon. Which allows me the opportunity to capture great photos without tourists in the way. And I’ve come to the realization that people around the world, all like to sleep in….
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Early Morning Reflections
This photo maybe be a little to dark…. What do you think? This is from the Ocean Coral and Turquesa Resort in the Puerto Morelos area of Mexico. Blair and I got up super early to photograph the sunrise on the beach. While we were getting in position, I saw the very early morning reflections of the palm trees in the resort pool. So….I setup my camera and captured this beauty. But I’m still not sure if it is to dark….
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Morning Panorama of Djúpivogur Iceland
On our 3rd day in Iceland, we spend the night at Hótel Framtíð in the village of Djúpivogur. It started as an old house that was built in 1904 and they have added onto it over time. It sits on the harbor of this very small fishing village. It wasn’t the most luxurious hotel in the world, but it was clean and had the basics. When we got up the next morning, I took this photo of the village, fjord and mountains in the background. It was beautiful and my picture doesn’t do it justice.
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Early Morning Calm
Sorry about the recent
absence…as you probably guessed, I’ve been traveling. I took a long weekend and met some friends for our annual
Great Lakes shipwreck scuba diving get together. In the past, we’ve gone to Whitefish Point on Lake Superior
and the Mackinaw Straits area diving in both Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. We’ve done this five years in a
row. This year we met in Alpena
Michigan to dive the Thunder Bay area of Lake Huron. We got in three full days of diving on everything from ocean
going modern steal freighters, barges, dredges, wooden steamers and ancient wooden
sailing vessels. A fun time was had
by all. In the past when the
weather is to bad to dive, I’ve gone and capture some photos. And you never know what the
weather will be like. This year,
we got lucky, got lots of dives in…..so I didn’t take many photos.
But I did capture this photo at about 7am on Sunday morning of a few strangers leaving the harbor heading out to go fishing. They didn’t know me, but stopped their boat to let me photograph them.
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