Sometimes Good Shots Require Some Discomfort To Get Them

Ah the uncomfortable things we photo-bugs go through to get some of the shots we do. These 3 shots are a perfect example of this.

Galveston, TX--07-10-2010

We were on vacation near Conroe TX in July of 2010, while there we decided to go down to Galveston & try to get some scenic shots. However, prior to that, I crammed in a Houston visit where I was to get a new laptop. The original one I was to get didn't pan out & I ended up wasting still more time getting my second choice. Finally, after much stress & nonsense (in the heat, in the huge city of Houston) getting that squared away, wasting probably a precious hour in the process, we ended up in Galveston just moments before the sun was to set, with us having no idea where the good places to go were.

As we drove around, I was shocked to see that most of Galveston was "eastern" shore, thus, the sun wasn't setting on hardly any of the beachfront areas at all, and thus no sunsets could be had. The light was quickly about to diminish & I had little time to spare. Finally, we found this spot way on the very extreme end of the island, well away from the "known" areas. I quickly flew out of the car, my Nikon D5000 in hand, the settings having long been set ready to go.

Galveston, TX--07-10-2010

The beach area was actually quite ugly here, this was where people were fishing with stink bait vs frolicking in their bathing suits in the surf. There were TONS of mosquitoes, I'm talking TONS, to a degree it made the Louisiana swamps seen downright sane by comparison. Meanwhile, I was still working against the clock (and that cloud of mosquitoes) and had to RUN to find spots.

Galveston, TX--07-10-2010

These 3 images, the best of the lot, were shot, along with the others, in barely 10 minutes, total. The hard stressful drive getting there and finding this spot before the sunset really added a huge degree of stress to what was supposed to be a vacation from stress, & the mosquitoes were just God-awful, but in the end, boy was it worth it. Sometimes, when you're trying to get a killer shot, that's just the way it goes.