I was fortunate that the one morning I chose to wake early and get out and make photographs in Porto was the right one. I got a lot of nice shots, but this is one of my favorites so far. Interestingly, it was one of my last of the morning.

I was out well before the sunrise but in time to watch the color develop over the skyline. As the morning progressed, I noticed a fog bank forming over the river east of town and up river. I walked up to the Ponte Luis Bridge and made this photo just as a Viking river cruise ship passed. It was pretty good timing.

There are six bridges over the Douro connecting Porto with Gaia, so almost any photograph of the river is going to include one of them. The bridge in this photo is the modern Ponte da Arrábida Bridge, and it adds a nice backdrop combined with the ship and the buildings along the river bank.