Still in a fog

I've been on a bit of a hiatus lately. The return of an old friend prompted me to raise my head momentarily. If you can take it, I have some more to share from last month's photo shoots. I hope to be back on a more regular basis in a couple of weeks. Until then I shall visit as I can, and wish you happy shooting.

Under the full moon

I don't know whether statistics back it up but folk lore has it that strange things happen under the full moon. I was out in the wee hours last night and caught some strange apparitions.

(SOOC:  10-22mm  f5.6  120sec  ISO200)

"It was an early morning yesterday ...

... and I was up before the dawn ..." Some of you might recognize those opening lines and those fit our situation as we all were up just past 03:30 a.m. to bring our daughters to the airport. We had a wonderful week with them and they made it back home safely. We returned home just after 05:00 a.m. and it was still pitch dark. We decided not to go back to bed and I found myself in uncharted territory at that time of day - up BEFORE the dawn !

Well, dawn did arrive and I decided to take advantage of a rare (for me) opportunity to capture a sunrise on a bit of a foggy morning.

(70-200mm  f18  1/3 sec  ISO100)

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Foggy mirror

We were greeted by a rather misty morning today. Since I'm not an early morning person (unless you're referring to the time before I go to bed) I hustled to have my shower and get out with the camera before having breakfast. The fog would soon be dissipated by the sun so I applied lesson #2 from my 365 project.

(18-55mm  f11  1/125 sec  ISO200)

(Day 189) A fortuitous foto

I guess you could use the word blistering to describe our weather this week - it's been around 36C/97F all week and more of this is expected for tomorrow (but we're not really complaining because we get almost those numbers, with a minus sign prefix, in wintertime).

I went out this evening to give our flowers a much-needed drink, and of course took out the camera since the sky was also looking interesting. And again I forgot to acclimatize the camera and lens. As I went to focus on an interesting thunderhead I noticed the problem. Despite wiping the lens a couple of times the fogginess persisted. Recalling a past experience I then focused on a vine climbing up a balcony support beside me and made the photo posted below. The outcome wasn't planned, but I'll take it.

(70-200mm  f5.6  1/40 sec  ISO200)