My photog buddy and I got up at 4am to avoid the mass throngs of tourists and to be able to move quickly around to capture moments like this. After grabbing a bunch of pre-dawn shots in the Piazza San Marco, we rushed over to the Ponte dell'Accademia to catch the sunrise. The clouds were just picture perfect, lazily hanging in the air as if waking from a sleepy slumber. The canal was almost picture perfect still, a polar opposite of how it is during the day. The sun was slowly starting to make its rise, slowly creeping up from behind the horizon, warmly illuminating parts of buildings on the canal. These are the moments that make it worth the early AM rise, just to get that one amazing shot you'll remember a lifetime. Google Maps Location: http://goo.gl/OOlMl
