An hour in the making

Some images are harder got then others. This evening having not got out for a couple of days I decided to go out and get a picture, despite the heavy cloud cover, I was determined to post a "fresh" picture! There was no sign of the sun as I left the house but as I drove over the bridge at Pontoon ( beside the Pontoon Bridge Hotel) I decided the gaps in the cloud were probably as good as it was going to get and so I stopped. The contrast between the sun coming through the gaps and the rest of the scene was just too strong so I just waited for the gaps to close a little and the sun to drop. eventually I made this image, using a big stopper filter to give a long 30 second exposure helped to smooth the water and give some movement and therefore interest to the sky. A photograph only takes a second to record, or in this case thirty seconds, but it was an hour in the making!!