I have not been as motivated for the past 4 weeks to get out early for morning sunrise shots. I may wake up early but laying there has been dominating my time. This sunrise was taken last month on one of those mornings when I was able to get up early. When I see images like this, I sometimes wonder just what I may have missed when I sleep in or talked myself out of driving to a natural area or walking the streets of Old Town or whatever excuse I may come up with.
Here is a quote from a blog post by Guy Tal that I wanted to share with you. He’s talking about things we may be missing. “To click on a preset for a canned effect is not an act of creation, it is an act of surrender. It is admitting that doing it yourself is too hard; it is taking the easy way, settling for good enough, choosing the drive-thru window over a pleasant evening preparing your own specialties and unique flavoring in your own well-stocked kitchen. Both will fill your belly, but differ greatly in satisfaction, value, sense of accomplishment, and accolades from others. Worse yet, if you don’t invest the time to learn the skills and apply them yourself, you may not even know how much you are missing.”