My three-week vacation started on friday. After spending yesterday at a pool with my sister and her family and having dinner at their place, I went home to my parents place. They are on holiday (in Nice, France) and I needed to take care of Samson (our cat) for a few days. My uncle did it until I came home. I woke up twice last night. First at 04.00 because Samson was sitting outside my bedroom door screaming–he wanted to get out. After letting him out, I went back to bed and fell asleep instantly. Almost an hour later I woke up again. I have a mild form of restless legs syndrome. It is a neurological disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move one’s body to stop uncomfortable or odd sensations. Mostly it occurs in my legs, but sometimes my arms is affected. That happened yesterday. To make it go away, I need to focus my brain on other things than the restless arms. Doing things with your arms helps.
While being up, I saw the sun rise–it was beautiful. So I decided to take some photos of the sunrise, now that I was up and couldn’t sleep. I was too tired to get dressed, and I had planned to go to bed again, so I just put on my late grandfathers bathrobe and went out. It was so lovely outside–quiet and quite warm even though it was only 5 AM in the morning.
Samson was already outside and he joined me for a short while, before he disappeared somewhere.
Getting up really early to photograph is something I think I will repeat, not just when I can’t sleep. The light is beautiful in the early, early morning–especially when the sun is rising.
I hope you’ll enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed photogprahing.
These photos are taken with my brand new 35mm lense. I bought it a month ago, because I was hired to photograph a friends wedding. Initially I bought a new standard zoom lense (18-250mm) since the one I owned had some issues and was very unstable. When buying that I overheard a convo at the photostore about this new 35mm lense from Sigma–it was supposed to be very good. After a few days and a lot of reading online about the lense and other similar lenses, I went and bought that too. So in less than I week, I had almost spend my entire tax-refund. I paid 10.300 for both lenses. Eeek! I better put them to use, to justify such big purchases in such short time.
If anyone thinks about buying this 35mm lense, but aren’t quite sure, I got two words for you: DO IT!
Absolutely beautiful photos!!
OMG !!! this is tremendously beautiful..
Beautiful captures :) Simply gorgeous.
Beautiful shots. Great use of angles, lights and shadows. Thank you for sharing them. -Max-
gorgeous!
Beautiful! The morning light is pure magic :)
I have two sigma lenses (a 50mm 1.4 + a 70-200mm 2.8) and I love them, the images I get are super sharp and the colors amazing!
Thank you for your kind comment. I got the 50mm 1.4 as well. Lovely lens! I’ve used it a lot!
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These are beautiful images! The lighting is just perfect.
beatiful pictures! i like that soft light
Love your photos
Amazing pics !
Beautiful pictures, sunrise is the best time to take photos! Love it!