A Quick Morning Photoshoot

I had one of those nights on Tuesday. I awoke at 2 with intestinal cramps and didn't sleep afterward. I fired up the heating pad and placed it on my abdomen. Eventually, the pain began to subside. Of course, several trips to the commode were crucial in the process.

After about a half hour, I was doing pretty well, but of course, I was beyond sleep by then. I lay quietly, listening to podcasts for about another hour before arising and brewing coffee. I wrote yesterday's blog post before deciding to head out the the camera.

It was shortly after 5 by then, and I headed to a park on the river. Pre-sunrise was happening downstream. I tried a few shots, but the sunrise glow was on the edge of the frame, and I wasn't about to wade into the river to get a better composition.

I realize that my low light photos don't show their best at Blogger resolution, but they're not bad on a good, big monitor.

I had it in mind to photograph the derelict Hawthorne factory (on the right, below), but the light wasn't over the factory, so the results were only okay with no lights in the building itself. Still, the reflections are pretty good.

Because photography is about the light, my fave of the morning was this ↓ unplanned photo of the canoe club. 

I also took this ↓ next one for the Monday bench challenge in Flickr, mostly because there is a bench. Once again, it is okay, but I don't like it as much as the previous photo. You can see that compared to the photo, above, it was getting brighter out, which, I guess, is a plus.

It was a fairly brief outing. I was back home not long after 6, so the trip and shoot only took about an hour.