Golden Gate Bridge – San Francisco Sunrise

Every­body needs a pic­ture of early morn­ing sun­rise over San Fran­cisco — the sun pok­ing through the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge.  

Here’s one of mine –  I’ve donated its use to the Meg Whit­man cam­paign for Gov­er­nor of California. 

The way to take a pic­ture like this is to hang around the Marin Head­lands for a long time, months, even years, scout­ing out angles to view the gate, the bridge and the city. 

Then one morn­ing when you think the sun­rise is going to flare and do some­thing spec­tac­u­lar, you get up and speed to your favorite place in the dark before first light.  Set up your cam­era gear in the cold fog and shiver.  Then most of the time there is no sun­rise.  Just the black­ness fad­ing to the faintest gray, and grad­u­ally a lit­tle more gray than dark.  And then that’s it – it’s over, you can go home and won­der why you do things like this.

And then you do it again.