I love mornings. I will usually set my alarm one hour or so before sunrise to allow myself time to get to my chosen photo location. This location happened to be a very nondescript lake in Williamsburg, Virginia, but the lighting that morning was magnificent. Cool nighttime temperatures caused a blanket of mist to hover over the lake softening the reflections of the cypress trees on the shoreline. I was taking picture after picture of the landscape when a whistle came overhead. It was a cormorant coming in for a landing. I was lucky to have a longer zoom on the camera, and I took several pictures as he approached the surface of the lake. Sometimes the early bird gets the worm - or at least the photograph.