The story is that when my alarm went off, about 90 minutes before sunrise, I could hear heavy rain, and a peek out the window into the blackness showed a totally overcast sky.
But, I firmly believe in serendipity and so I got up and drove out into the wet darkness.
Within a half hour though the sky started to brighten and just after dawn the clouds lifted, and for the next hour or so I was shooting in some of the most beautiful light and atmospherics that I have ever seen, including in either Iceland or Antarctica. I have several more shots from that hour that will appear here over the next week or so.
It was just a remarkable morning. When I got back to the ranch my wife was just getting up and asking – how was the shooting? All I could do was give a shit-eating grin and start to show her the files on the laptop. What a morning.
Michael