Perseverance

This is my sixth attempt at this place in a hope to get a perfect shot. Sometimes, I get there, but mountain is covered in clouds, sometimes it is too windy and I don't get the reflection, or even worse, it starts raining right before the sunrise .. (worst of all -- once I forgot my memory card at home and that was in winter freezing temperatures.)

Today, I did my part, memory card -- check, battery -- check, weather -- 50-50% chance. While driving towards this lake, I was looking at the sky and clouds building up right in front of me, and I was cursing myself..here we go again 80 miles of driving in the middle of the night is going to be a total disaster. But as I reached closer, I saw a moon setting and few stars in the sky and it turned out to be an amazing sunrise.

p.s. I did not plant this duck right in the foreground :). She just posed for me.