Morning Light

Sue wanted to get up early for a morning photo. I always get up pretty early, but she doesn't. Heckfire, I am often up by 5 o'clock, so I would surely be awake and rarin' to go by 6 which is how milady set her alarm.

Wouldn't you know that this was the one morning when I would sleep later than usual‽ I awoke with a start at 6 o'clock after 7+ hours of sleep, my longest night and latest wakeup in probably 3 months. Go figure: just when I wanted to wake up early, I slept in. What a life!

I had been sleeping in my den, but when I got up and checked the bedroom Sue's bed was already made. She had set her alarm to rise at 6 but had awoken at 5:45. Fearing that she had already left, I checked her location on my phone and saw that she was still nearby. In fact, she had just come back inside from taking pictures in the garden and had heard me flip down the chair to get up, for it does sometimes make quite a bang.

I got dressed hurriedly, and we drove around the corner to the park.

Sue was taking pictures right away.

I took this one from very near the same spot as above, catching the soft morning light on the leaves.

We wandered by the pond, which was bordered by cattails and purple loosetrife.

Later, I cropped the picture, and I like it more this way, so here is that version as well.

I decided to experiment with the loosestrife and applied a little bit of ICM (intentional camera movement) as I pressed the shutter.

In another experiment, I zoomed the lens while taking the shot. .

I like both effects: not bad for only having been awake for only a few minutes.

Meanwhile, Sue took this picture of me while I was taking the above photos or ones like them.

We were back home by 6:35.

* Do you know how much trouble I had to go to in order to insert the interrobang ‽ up there in the post? I used html code up there but eventually also found it under Emojis. The things that I do just 'fer youse guys'!