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The title is a reference to the exposure time. 123 seconds, that is how long the exposure was. It was a very quiet morning. I arrived at the lake way before sunrise. I was scouting the location with my headlamp on. Unfortunately, it was an overcast morning, so the sun wouldn’t be visible. Because of this I was on the lookout for a long exposure shot during blue hour.
When I found this jetty, it was still very dark. So dark that even after a 3-minute exposure with my ND10 it was still way underexposed. So, I switched to my ND3 which was used to take this photo.
It was a private jetty, So I needed to photography trough a fence. Luckily there wasn’t a bar in the middle otherwise I couldn’t get this shot with the jetty in the centre of the frame.
I really enjoyed this morning even though I had to get up at 5 AM in the morning. The getting out of bed part is hard, but there is something special about the getting up before every one else. Experiencing the world waking up.

Howdy! My name is Patrick van Os. A photography enthusiast living in the Netherlands. My goal is trying to capture fleeting moments with my camera to help remember the short time it lasted and showcase its beauty. At an early age I was fascinated by cameras. My father, working at a Ford dealer at that time, was given a 35mm film Ford promotional camera. I really liked watching the world through its plastic lens with the back and the aperture wide open. I looked it up and apparently, this was the same promotional camera (rebranded Yunon YN 500) as used by Time magazine to gain more subscribers in 1985. Funny enough I never used it with actual film in it. In 2003 I got my first digital cameras. A 0.3-megapixel Trust Powercam. Can you...