If you need one good reason to be up at the crack of dawn, here it is.

Adobe Photoshop 6.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM.

Photo Settings: 33mm, f/6, 1/60 second, ISO 100.

Taken in Canary Wharf (London). Fog is visible at the top of the building.

Manfrotto tripod, Canon remote, Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM.

Photo Settings: 37mm, f/10, 6 seconds, ISO 100.

Shot in a forest outside Kiruna, Sweden right before sunset. The snow created a natural blue light reflected from the sky.

Sony Alpha DSLR-A580, Sony DT 16-50mm F2.8 SSM.

Photo Settings: 16mm, f/5, 1/160 second, ISO 100.

Map: 67.8822, 20.2019

I walked to the beach to take pictures of sunset, when I saw a light behind the trees on a cliff...

HDR from one RAW file.

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM.

Taken along the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail.

Adobe Lightroom 4.

Nikon D7000.

Photo Settings: 16mm, f/8, 1/200 second, ISO 100.

This shot was taken at Albion Falls in Hamilton, Ontario.

A Lee 10-stopper was used to produced silky water. I believe it was 5-minute exposure. I did not have my 3-stop neutral density filter with me or else i could have achieved the same result with less time. Post-processing in Adobe Photoshop CS6.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM.

Photo Settings: 300 seconds.

In Taiwan.

Pentax K-5.

My first attempt to fake tilt shift image processing in GIMP. I used one of my old Tatra Mountains photos.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM.

After a 12-hour drive we got this amazing view as a reward. The landscape around Geiranger is simply stunning. If you're planning a trip to Norway, this is the place to go.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM.

Photo Settings: 46mm, f/10, 1 second, ISO 100.

Map: 62.1230, 7.1737

Taken from the peak of Uetliberg, a Swiss mountain plateau next to Zurich, using a Vixen Polarie, a device that helps to even out the rotation of the Earth. Exposure time was about 90 seconds at ISO 50.

Adobe Photoshop CS6, Camera RAW 7.

Nikon D800, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED.

Photo Settings: 15mm, f/2, 84 seconds, ISO 50.

Map: 47.3495, 8.4913