13 August 2008

I Was Here


Maybe this has happened to you.
You're on holiday, and it's that one day you decided to wake up at 5am because you suspect that if you get up earlier than everyone else the city will be secretly more beautiful, and reveal its beauty only to you.

But getting up at 5am, it's hard, and you're grumpy and you argue with your boyfriend because it's 5am and humans aren't really meant to wake up before the sun.

The sun, which while you're busy being crotchety, is rising quietly over the tops of the buildings and poking yellow rays into dark shadowy corners.

So you take a few photos and forget all about it. And a few weeks later, you're back home. You have to go shopping for milk and it's raining on the washing and your boyfriend is sitting on the couch talking to your flatmates about flexinodes and content types.

You open up your photos on the computer and there's that photo of the Old Town Square in Prague, that morning you got up really early.
God, that's beautiful! Didn't I notice that? Was I ever really there?

4 comments:

Ken said...

breathtaking

lokulin said...

Boyfriend? Have I been demoted now? ;-) Definately need to have another go at getting up early. It was because I got up early that I manged to get those snow shots earlier this year. Guess there is something to be said for it afterall. Lauch

Anonymous said...

Wow - always good to be a morning person....there is always something beautiful in that part of the day....I know it is hard though to drag yourself away from those cosy covers. Imagine though....not another soul. How did you get the pic? Or was it the grumpy boyfriend who succumbed to the early morning start????? I must admit his early morning snowy start was well worth it too. Don't know about those flexinodes though!! Looking forward to more pics :)
jillnshimnmike

Anonymous said...

Morning.. 5am... Baaaaaaad time to be awake. It's hard to get up at the time.. However as you drive (as we were) you start to see things you don't normally see, and the sun rising is just beautiful!!
So arguing is part and parcel of 5am time slots and the beauty is alway appreciated later!! xoxo