If it wasn’t for @adams39, who I just met the night before shooting the Milky Way behind Delicate Arch, I would have never got this shot. As us photographers know, when traveling, you are getting up early to shoot sunrises, out all day hiking to shoot some more, catching the sunsets and then staying up at night to shoot the stars. In addition, you are eating at odd hours and up late to work on and backup your photos. Let’s just say I never heard my alarm go off at 5am. Luckily, @adams39 knocked on my hotel door a few times and finally I rose. And because of that, was able to capture this stunning, beautiful sunrise at Mesa Arch. An absolutely breathtaking moment I will never forget, as us and a bunch of photographers gathered there that early morning. Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, Moab, UT, 84532 Google Maps Location video was taken from: https://goo.gl/q3iWjD
Spending most of the day in Arashiyama, I started to make my way back to the train station, to catch a ride home after a long day of shooting. Knowing the tourist hordes would be at the Bamboo Grove, I figured I should check it out regardless. So happy I did. With long exposure, you can effectively wipe out any existence of people in your shot. They end up being a blur. I just LOVE the lanterns on the ground, dotting the path, casting their glow up on the wood stick fencing. And then the lights they have turned on in the bamboo grove, to illuminate them. Just wow. Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, Sagatenryūji Susukinobabachō, Ukyō-ku, Kyōto-shi, Kyōto-fu 616-8385, Japan
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
