Not all of us photographers are crazy. Sometimes we stand back and shoot.
Here's a typical sunrise session that day (including the images in the video above) so you don't think it's a matter of just sitting around until the light gets right:
I shot 785 pictures during the time covered in that video.
One of my all time favorite "trying to get that best photo position" sequences are the following photos from the Grand Canyon:
What was this guy thinking!! Not only did he jump to a highly unstable position to take a photo, he jumped back using his one free hand in flip flops!! How dumb. Lucky he didn't take his last photo there! Amazingly lucky! (I would have loved to see how he got there in the first place!)
I think someone had a little fun with photoshop
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike
