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If you've ever been outside the Connaught hotel in Mayfair, London, you know the drill. For a brief second, a burst of steam kicks out of the water pool in the main courtyard where all the luxury cars park.
It makes for a great photo—a genuinely striking shot—but it lasts only a few seconds. The challenge is trying to perfectly time a person walking past in front of the rising vapor. It sounds simple, but trust me, it's not.
The steam only releases every 15 minutes, so if you miss the window, you have a long wait and a lot of hoping that a pedestrian's pace will align with the fountain's schedule. I call it great fishing practice; it certainly teaches you patience!
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If I had to pick favorite shooting scenarios, it would have to be Rome in the snow and London in full fog. I did not quite get the full fog, but I did get enough to capture this atmospheric shot of Sir Winston Churchill with Big Ben in the background. The bird just happened to fly in and add that missing something to the image.