Let me run you all through the past 48 hours:
5:00pm Monday-
On comes the Channel Ten five o'clock news. Me and my dad are watching.
5:30pm Monday-
On comes Tim Bailey, and he plugs his "Take a Pic" competition, in which you take a photo of the weather, send it in and you go into a weekly draw for a $270 Panasonic Lumix camera.
5:32pm Monday-
Dad suggests I enter it, win, then sell the camera for a free $270 towards my DSLR. I laugh.
4:30pm Tuesday-
Dad points out a large rainbow nearby our house. He suggests I photograph it. I attempt this. I fail.
4:40pm Tuesday-
Dad suggests I send the photo in anyway. I say I'd be better off taking a shot of the sunrise. He says that's a good idea. I say I will. He is doubtful.
11:30pm Tuesday-
Danielle, my sister, gets dressed up in fancy clothing out of boredom. I say, sarcastically, "You should come down to the beach at sunrise tomorrow with me." She likes the idea.
12:01am Wednesday-
I say I'm going to bed. Danielle says it's not worth it, sleeping for only 5 hours. I, with my exquisite late night decision making skills, think it's much more sensible to stay up the entire night.
2:00am Wednesday-
I look up the sunrise time online. Discover it is 6:18am. All is well.
4:00am Wednesday-
Danielle and I realise that staying up all night was a terrible idea. This is just the point were it's not worth going to bed. We persevere.
5:00am Wednesday-
Danielle starts to fix up her fancy clothing in preparation for departure. I worry about clouds ruing the rise.
5:35am Wednesday-
We are ready to go, and are heading to the door, when mum wakes up. She thinks we're crazy. We leave.
6:00am Wednesday-
We take many photos (which totalled 242 shots) of Danielle, me the sunrise and the beach. Clouds are not obscuring the sunrise too much.
6:18am Wednesday-
First sliver of sun peaks above the horizon. We are impressed with the accuracy of the online sunrise predictor.
6:25am Wednesday-
Sun has already disappeared up into the clouds. We continue to take photos of Danielle and things.
6:40am Wednesday-
We head home, battery empty.
7:30am Wednesday-
The effects of staying up all night prior to a thirty minute return walk to the beach start to show. We are both very tired.
8:30am Wednesday-
Danielle collapses on the couch, delirious.
9:30am Wednesday-
I send in one of the best shots of the sunrise I could find.
11:30am Wednesday-
I collapse on the bed, delirious.
3:00pm Wednesday-
Danielle awakes. I awake. The four hours sleep I got didn't help.
5:00pm Wednesday-
Five o'clock news begins. I wonder if they will announce today's weather winner before I finish writing this blog.
5:26pm Wednesday-
They announce today's winner. It's not me. I, in my arrogant opinion, think my shot is better.
There you have it. The past 48 hours. Happiness, sadness, regret, disappointment, tiredness, awe etc.
Below are some shots of the sunrise. More will come with my next blog post about my photography.
The shot I entered into the weather competition. If only I had a DSLR camera!
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A shot by Danielle, which she uploaded to her blog.
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Danielle's outfit, and one of her many, many sleep-deprived poses. (6:10am)
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Danielle drew those onto her face all by herself.
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Wearing the fancy clothes that had fallen off Danielle on the walk down, I was looking a little
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I'll leave that there, as I'm slightly incoherent during my sleep-deprivation. More hilarious pictures of Danielle begin a little bit weird to follow, amongst many other, more interesting things. I'll also bring you Part II.5 in the Blood Tests and X-Rays (oh, and a birthday) series, "The Unexpected Appointment", on Saturday.
In memory of the wondrous art of pre-emptive gluing,
Nick.
That's a pretty nice shot.
ReplyDeleteAhha this made me laugh.
Looking back, I think it was worthwhile.
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