My Foggy Brain

I mentioned that my early morning photo hunt was met with mild success. That may be a bit optimistic. I spent a few minutes last night looking through the results of my desperate search for the magical lighting that is said to exist at hours that are to fierce to mention. I found the images rather underwhelming.

My early morning excursion was more of a learning experience than anything. The one lesson that I learned was one that my Father-in-law has recited many times before: "You make your plan, you work your plan." I should have heeded his advice. My original intention was to wake up at 3am and drive to an area I had mapped out in the Skaggit Valley, photographing barns and the sunrise over the mountains. My propensity for hitting the snooze button caused me to alter these detailed plans.

Instead I decided to drive all night to a different location south of Seattle and then sleep in my car after choosing an appropriate area. All this to avoid rush hour traffic in Seattle. Silly, silly Tim! It didn't occur to me that I didn't know this area at all. It's pretty hard to find a new location at 2am with no moon. I woke up in the back of my car at 4am to find that there were only two barns near by, and that I was in a mostly residential area. Silly, silly Tim!

The photo you see here is one of the two barns that were near me when I woke up. I overexposed this photo in order to accurately represent the fog and the sky. I'll tell you more about my early morning blunders in the coming days. It was my first time having my eyes open at such an hour, let alone taking pictures at that time, so there were blunders aplenty.

Canon PowerShot S2 IS, 6mm, f/8.0, 15 sec, ISO 50