You know when summer is over and fall is coming when the fog rolls in and you lose the sky in the morning. That’s been happening a lot here lately so I thought I should capture some examples. Normally I see it on the way to work in the morning as I live at the top of this hill and on the way to work I drive past a large lake. The fog (I guess) builds up on the lake and then rolls onto the land and I hit it as I drive down the hill.
Anyway, in the past I’ve seen some amazing “fog” pictures, you know the kind of thing, fall trees by a field with a fence and fog coming off the field (I so loads of those) so I thought I’d try to capture some myself. This does of course require me to get up early enough so I have time to stop of the way to work and take a picture (that may be a problem).
But I do have this picture of a sail boat on Elliott Bay with a foggy Seattle skyline. So I thought I’d start with that. Ironically this was captured a while ago but I like the image so I thought I’d post it tonight.
The downside of fog I’m finding (in pictures that is) is that my images have no (or very little) contrast or color and look a little boring. So I had to boost the contrast to make this even slightly interesting. Now this could be because I suck at photographing fog, but it also could be that there is little foreground interest in this image. There is the boat (that’s white with a black sail) and then there is just loads of water. So I shouldn’t be surprised that this is pretty washed out.
Anyway I’ll keep trying and see what else I can get.
Oh, by the way. My photo walk is this Saturday and I’m leading a group of photographers (28 in total) around Redmond. So that should be interesting and will hopefully produce a lot of images. Of course rain is suposed to be here on Saturday but as we live in the Pacific North West I’m hoping people will still turn up – I mean we are used to rain right?
Today, Master Chief was attacked by a huge green spider. Carter Tried to help, I think it was because Master Chief’s uniform is also green!
