Aerial Landscapes III – Low Lying Fog
I had a lot of fun taking these landscapes of low-lying marine fog clinging to the shoreline and twined around and through a small archipelago. It’s not everyday that one gets a low angle overview of wonderful scenery like this.
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You will have guessed by now that these are details from the photos I took of storm waves, others that are not zoomed in I featured last Friday. I love how the moving water in long exposures starts to look like fog and how it fills the lower spaces where the water is moving in and out.
These are a companion to earlier aerial landscapes that you can find here and here.
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All images taken with 50mm/1.4 Canon lense on Canon 5DMkii. All taken at ISO100, with polarizing filter to cut the light, at the end of the day in low light conditions.
- Top image: f18 @ 30 seconds.
- Second: f13 @ 8 seconds.
- Third: f13 @ 8 seconds.
- Fourth: f13 @ 6 seconds.
- Bottom: f18@20 seconds.
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I love these!! I have frost and you have fog.. I’d like to trade sometime if I can get some photo’s like these 🙂
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Hi Juanita – we do have fog sometimes, but in this case I had a howling wind storm and I am not sure that I would generally prefer a bit of frost.
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Gorgeous, the low light really makes this a piece of art
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Hey Nick – thanks! That is a very gratifying comment.
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Surreal….dreamy….chilling. wow! The photos are amazing! Such an awesome post! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Judy!
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Amazing. Like feeling the salt-spray on your face.
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Tomorrow’s post will have some more context for these first group of these shots and will show one of the images from which some of these have been cropped (or one very like).
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outstanding photo’s awesome
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Thank you maenamor!
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Very cool…these photos remind me of fog in the mountains!. well done indeed!!!
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Hi David – I am glad that you like them 🙂
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impressive seascapes ART
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Thank you Frizztext!
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Beautiful. I can feel the cool breath of the ocean through the images.
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Hi Ryan – that would make the images a success then 🙂
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So wonderfully evocative! I love this series!
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Hi Photobooth – thank you, somehow I missed this comment. “Better late than never”.
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Lovely work. I followed you here from a link at Words4it. I’m across the sound from you in Edmonds. Your photos are terrific.
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Thank you Dawn and welcome to my blog. Doug at words4it has been a big supporter and provider of very useful advice as I launch into this blogging world. I have been browsing your blog and am amazed at the diversity of images and interests that you have. For the blogging world, you are nearly a neighbour – if you squint your eyes into the distance in the post from yesterday you can just about see Puget Sound.
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I like the foggy look you get with the long exposures. It’s a nice compliment with the rocks in the foreground.
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Hi Ken – I missed a couple of comments. Makes me wonder how often that happens.. I really like the foggy look. Messing with time and getting a new bit of information in a photo is really a lot of time. Probably something well worth exploring. Should probably get an ND filter or two, but don’t know where to start in terms of which density, etc. Research time coming up 🙂
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These photos are lush and mysterious! I nominated you for The Versatile Blogger Award. The info is on my latest post; please feel free to do as you wish with the nomination. Have a happy new year!
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Speechless !
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For an inlander like me, these images are of another world. Nothing I’ve seen on the Great Lakes comes close to them. They have a wonderfully etherial quality and I love the soft light.
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Thanks Doug – this is quite a familiar type of landscape for this part of the world – there are archipelagos of small islands packed in tightly and they do have fog around them quite often. Thanks for the pingback to your own miniature landscape in a pothole which really is a very different shoreline than this one.
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Such a wonderful series Ehpem, you are a great source of inspiration. These scenes always elude me but I live in hope……..
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Hi Aware. These scenes mostly come visiting unexpectedly – things I see in a photo that I did not usually see through the viewfinder.
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Looks like heaven on earth. The fog looks so stunning!
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Hi Story – I like that the fog is a memory of waves and spray which reminds of fog settled on land and sea.
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Fog adds to the mystery here, totally amazing! 🙂
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Nandini – I’m glad you like this series. Fog can be so mysterious.
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What beautiful images. The scenery is spectacular and the fog makes it breathtaking.
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Hi Paula – I love finding these bits of scenery so close to home and yet previously unnoticed – the fog makes all the difference.
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The fog makes me think of ghosts from the Chinese cemetery. They hang around the waters edge hoping to see a ship which will take them back to China.
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Hi Valerie – I would not be surprised. There were many bones left stranded in the nearby Chinese cemetery by the Sino-Japanese war in the late 1930’s that are still waiting for their lift back to their home provinces.
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Absolutely fantastic images! Love the f18 🙂
peace
xandi
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Hey xandi – thanks – have a peaceful New Year.
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The look like paintings !!
Wonderful !!
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Hi Mathias – thanks so much. I think that texture/surface ‘grain’ is a combination of the really low light, the hard crop, a bit of sharpening to make the seaweed look more like distant tree tops and all the spray in the air.
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