Of Fog and Macros

Still on my journey with the Macro lens. I'm shooting every day, even if I post nothing worthwhile. 

This morning, we had ice rain. This afternoon, heavy fog. I deliberately amped up the ISO in this shot to increase the noise so that it might add to the fog effect. I would have tried this shot with my 17-35mm and come away disappointed, I think, so in a way trying landscape work with a prime went rather well.

Oh and tomorrow? More ice scheduled. Go figure.

Foggy Day

Ok, I've been experiencing issues today creating posts, either Chrome or BlogSpot is being dumb and eating my posts. Long story short: No Gwar shots, venue were being jerks. Had a warm weekend so heavy fog, here are the results.

Cityscape

Apparently it's now Spring as we are experiencing 70+ degree days. Not that I'm complaining mind you, but I would like just one more good (3+ inches) snowstorm before warm weather returns.

In any case, the warm weather brings heavy fog, and a downtown enshrouded in it. Hard to capture (I need to read more on how to properly do that) the scene, but I think I pulled it off well.....enough.

Woah

The fog was so thick that I missed this when I first walked around the bend. It loomed up at me out of the fog and stopped me dead in my tracks. The picture simply cannot convey the sheer size of this radiotelescope. It simple boggles the mind.

Now I'm Down In It

From just after sunrise, you can see how heavy the fog was. From this vantage point, you should have been able to see several of the 'scopes. Instead of nothing. I love it.

Fall is coming

Two great effects combined into one shot, fog and fall. The fall colours look great on the fallen leaves, and the fog isolates everything. On of my favourite shots from the trip.

Here comes Mr. Sun!

Behind me, and to the right were a row of trees which blocked the sun until it was high in the sky (wel, high for 10am) then at which point it blew away the fog. Here you can see the effect.

Closer

An exception to the 17-35mm lens, here I used a 70-210mm, and waited just a bit until the fog had lifted, so I could get the 2nd 'scope in the shot.

The Fog

Here is another angle of the main scope, just after dawn, as the heavy fog was still holding dominance over the land.

If you look realy carefully at the full-sized image, at the far left you can just make out one of the other 'scopes in the area.

The Scope

Not the main scope, but one off in the distance. I was very lucky, there was heavy fog surrounding the whole area, lending atmosphere and a sense of isolation to my work.

Smoke on the Water

Another fine isolated image, courtesy of the fog. The wooden poles also add some leading lines, drawing your eyes towards the pink (?) boat in the centre.