AMARG - Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, USA - 29/01/2009

Driving back to our hotel last night we could help but feel that we'd somehow missed a trick by not shooting the items in AMARG down East Escalante Rd, which, unlike the ones we were shooting then didn't have a big bank of earth in front of them!

I therefore suggested that as we wouldn't have any further opportunities to shoot sunsets there (on account of flying home that evening) we might consider a sunrise shoot instead! Glenn and Shiggie agreed and so at 0645 we left our hotel and departed for the spot in question. It was still too dark when we arrived so we sat it out for a few minutes, before Shiggie woke all of the locals up with the car alarm...

I think it was well worth the effort personally.

We headed off for breakfast with the intention of sitting in our 'usual' spot at DM, but knowing that because of the runway switch we'd be shooting departures rather than landers.

When we got back to the spot though, it was all too apparent that the sun wasn't going to be coming good for us until around the time we'd need to start our journey back to Phoenix, so I suggested doing the AMARG bus tour again - this time from the other side of the bus, and again this was greeted with full approval from my fellow travellers.

I'm really glad we did because as Glenn and I discovered, the right side of the bus is by far the better of the two!!

So far as we were all concerned that was a $7 well spent.

With just under an hour left before we needed to get on the road we did return to our usual haunt, and to be honest, I almost wish we'd not...