Professional photographers always encourage you to get up early: to catch the light, see the world before others do and capture the dawn mist as it burns away into morning.
Anyone who knows me knows I don't do mornings. I struggle to get up at any time, but especially first thing. I write late at night and into the early hours before going to bed, but I don't get up early to write. I am therefore unlikely to attempt early mornings for my photography.
Except this morning I woke up not too late and the morning mist was still out there and only just beginning to lift. So I threw on some clothes, grabbed my camera and went out to welcome in the morning.