Chilkat River Winter Sunrise

During my recent photography tour to Haines, Alaska, this was the only morning worth photographing landscape images, but the shooting conditions were extreme. I had to lay on my stomach to get low enough to the ground to shoot this composition and the wind chill was at least -10°F. I was also instructing my clients at the same time that I was setting up my camera. For a few seconds, the low angle sunrise light briefly illuminated the foreground wind-blown snow patterns that I chose to frame the mountains. I managed a couple of exposures before the light went back behind the clouds. I continued my instruction until we all agreed that we could no longer feel our fingers or toes. Brrrr!