Marquette Lighthouse at 8:13 a.m.
Jan 31 Feb 2
Sunrise 32 of 365
- Sunrise time: 8:13
- Azimuth: 114° ↑
- Did the sun rise: Yes
- Was the sun visible: Yes
Exposure
- 85mm
- f/22.0
- 1/200 sec
- 100
Location
Marquette Lighthouse, Marquette, MI
46° 32' 45" N, -87° 22' 41" W
Musings | 221 words
Preparing for the next day has never been a skill of mine. I actually thought, by going to bed a little earlier last night I was preparing for a good morning to follow. Awake early, I pressed snooze once. Then back to it. With no direction of where to go I chose Marquette’s South Beach. The sun was just beginning to break the horizon. I rush down, running through knee deep snow drifts, turn on my camera… and it’s dead.
Twice! That’s twice that it’s happened in the last two weeks. I gave it a full charge a week ago, I figured leaving it in my car over with overnight lows of -22º would be just fine, right?
Well, I managed to take a photo on my phone through Delilah’s viewfinder. Then I rushed back through the knee deep snow drifts, a single onlooker probably laughing at me, headed back home and plugged my battery in for no longer than sixty seconds. It was enough juice to get back and take a few dozen shots. My hope is to produce a series of photos are are taken within ten minutes of the sun breaking the horizon. That will have to slide today. And maybe I’ll drink a few less lattes this month and buy an extra camera battery.
Outtakes
Fuel the Sunrises
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