I'm up with the sun nearly everyday now to help the kiddos off to school. I've always been a morning person but not necessarily a 5am kinda morning person. I do cherish that sacred space though that is dark and filled with quiet smiles, french pressed coffee and the sounds of the kids practicing their piano. When Ben and Stephanie reached out to me to photograph their Maryland wedding and plans of a pilgrimage to Lewes came up for their engagement session I suggested seeing a part of the morning that I'll never take for granted living at the beach. You truly cannot regret a morning when you wake to watch the sun rise over the ocean...this morning just happened to be on one of the longest days of the year so we started at 430am...it was worth it though...