Fayetteville lets photographers stand in the streets downtown on a certain 3 days in January at sunrise and again in November. Technically the best position is on January 29 and again on November 11 because sunrise is centered around the Market House (an iconic / eerie reminder that selling people was this thing much closer to us now than the old testament).
I went. Here are a few shots I got. It was super cold. I tried to do better each day…
I like this one.
You get ‘good light’ around sunrise and sunset for a while…magic hour… but the actual sun being in position for a shot is only 3-4 minutes.
Some drivers tried to go on through anyway.
It was cold and my fingers slowed down and couldn’t focus right. Gloves. Why didn’t I bring gloves?
I think this is my favorite shot.
One street over
The ‘New’ Parking Deck
Pic from The Fayetteville Observer’s web guy — I have the blue backpack
But as it turned out, I never did get a better shot. If you show up 10 minutes late to a sunrise, like I did one day 2, you miss it. (I hear it’s wasn’t as good). This is when I cue the Arnold-voice> “I’ll be back”</>. Day 3…. Sun rise came and went I was early and stayed late. It was warmer, but it was so super cloudy there was never any sunrise to see.
