For today’s sunrise session, I decided to try a sunrise over Cedar Creek in Oak Grove, MN.  I had been thinking about this location for a few weeks now and I hadn’t been able to get the proper conditions in the past attempts.  While the light still wasn’t how I’d really like it, there was a small amount of fog and that seemed to make the image work well enough.  With landscape photography, so much of your time is spent just waiting. I arrived at my spot at 5:30am in hopes of catching some pre-dawn fog.  There really wasn’t much to work with, so I waited until around 6am to take my first image (below).  You can see the sun starting to produce a little bit of color on the treeline.  Had there been clouds, they would have been lit up at this point and made for a dramatic sky.  It took another 30 minutes for the sun to finally fill in the the foreground with some dynamic light and I shot the second image at 6:34am.  Once the sun finally broke free of the treeline, it overpowered the tree/grass area and I decided to call it a morning.  I fully intend on coming back to the location, hopefully with a sky filled sunlit clouds.