Breaking Through

Even as a landscape photographer, waking up before dawn is extremely challenging for me. Close friends tend to laugh at my inability to wake up early.
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Even as a landscape photographer, waking up before dawn is extremely challenging for me. Close friends tend to laugh at my inability to wake up early.

On a recent trip to Northern Idaho, I was an hours drive from Yellowstone National Park, and had a location in mind from a previous trip that I had been wanting to shoot for sunrise.

Setting my alarm for 5am, knowing there would be an hour and then a hike after that was seriously an internal struggle. When I arrived there was thick steam and fog rising from the thermal pools. The warmth of the light contrasted with the cold pockets of air trapped in the valleys.

Was it. worth it in the end? I’ll let you decide
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