Early Riser

Summer Sunrise, originally uploaded by KingKobra.

This is a first for me.

I woke up just before 5.30 this morning, and for some reason was compelled to get out of bed and get shooting. So there I was, the first time I had been up and about at that time since doing the paper-round when I was a kid.

I had no idea where to go, but quickly thought somewhere high, with a good view over Chesterfield would be good. I headed out to Spitewinter, and got a few shots with the early morning mist, and the layered effect of the landscape.

I then drove into Beeley and through Chatsworth. The mist was quite heavy here, and I was hoping that if I could get high again, maybe at Curbar or Baslow Edge, then I could get above the mist and get some cracking shots. Anyway, the mist was thinning out again at Curbar, and wasn't anything spectacular, so I headed back home past Leash Fen, and got a few shots there of the cattle in the light of the sunrise.

It maybe the first time that I went out for some sunrise pictures, but I doubt it will be the last.