Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Never Again...

So last night I pulled an all nighter and went out to go photograph the sunrise. I left around 4:30am while it was still dark out. I'm not gunna lie, it was pretty damn scary. It was really strange, how there were virtually no cars. I made my way to the top of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge. In theory, it would make for a great vantage point. However, there were a few of variables I didn't consider.

1.) It was quite cold and windy
2.) There were a lot of huge, loud trucks
3.) Vehicles crossing the bridge tend to make it vibrate.

By around 6:15, I couldn't handle any more. My senses were overloaded. It was just far too industrial. Thing is that the sun hadn't even come up yet, but I didn't care. As a photographer, I usually do everything possible to get the shot. But this time I just couldn't do it. My only thought was to escape to a warm, quite place. In my head I imagined a blank, silent, white place. Not a room, just a nothingness of white. Unfortunately, such things do not exist in reality, so I just went home and slept in my room.

I'm hoping that in the future, I'll be able to get a nice photo of the sunrise above Vancouver, but from a more bearable environment. I'm thinking like from a mountain top, minus the bears haha.

4 comments:

  1. did you take this photo?

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  2. thought you went home! god your confusing!

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  3. My bad. I stayed there taking photos until 6:15, and then left before I could actually see the sun itself.

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