Train in Spain

One advantage of getting up early to get the shot you want (not that I'm in the

habit of it) is that there are usually no other distractions, no temptations to

wander off and shoot something else. When I got to the Charles Bridge in Prague

on this glorious spring day it was dotted with Japanese photographers, all waiting

for the same dawn shot, all walking up and down, their Nikons with tripods

dangling, wondering (presumably) where the sun was coming up.I couldn't

converse with any of them, as the sum total of my Japanese was wholly derived

from Kurosawa samurai films, most of which wpuld not have been appropriate at

that hour. The suddenly, they were all gone - their coach had turned up and

they were off to Vienna or somewhere. They'd all missed the dawn, except

perhaps from the coach. They'd got distracted.

One advantage of getting up early to get the shot you want (not that I'm in the

habit of it) is that there are usually no other distractions, no temptations to wander

off and shoot something else. When I got to the Charles Bridge in Prague on this

glorious spring day it was dotted with Japanese photographers, all waiting for the

same dawn shot, all walking up and down, their Nikons with tripods dangling,

wondering (presumably) where the sun was coming up.I couldn't converse with any

of them, as the sum total of my Japanese was wholly derived from Kurosawa

samurai films, most of which wpuld not have been appropriate at that hour. The

suddenly, they were all gone - their coach had turned up and they were off to

Vienna or somewhere. They'd all missed the dawn, except perhaps from the

coach. They'd got distracted.

Dawn on the Charles Bridge