After the rise

A few minutes after sunrise, but before the light got too harsh. This was one of the last pictures I took that morning (with that much reflective material around, once the sun comes up it is UP). I like the shadows radiating away from the sign, and the symmetry of the wires mirrored by the shadow of the snow. Given a choice, I would have prefered to have the sign be a little more face-on, so you could more easily recognize what kind of sign it was (bonus points if the meaning of the sign ties in to the scene of the photo). Being unable to move the sun, the sign, or the alignment therein, I made do with what I had. If I'd REALLY been on the ball, I might have known where the sun was going to come up, and scouted the location more carefully beforehand. As it was, I wanted the shadows and picked the first thing I could find to hide the sun behind. (I was going to say I saw the sign... but that just creates bad flashbacks to the 90's...) I have another picture where I tried the same thing with a tree trunk, but since I didn't get the entire tree in the frame, I wasn't very happy with it.

After I took this picture I walked across the street to try to get a (bitter) Mocha from StarSmucks. They were closed, but the grocery store had chocolate-chip muffins!