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This was taken at one of the photowalks held in Houston for the WorldWide Photowalk Day. That explains why a small, intrepid band of photographers stuck it out despite a strong storm front moving in. We took shelter in the office of the park we were photographing and while waiting I looked out the window and saw this. It is a reminder to me that as you said we sometimes have to let go of our idea of what the shoot was going to be and explore the options in front of us.
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I always enjoy getting shots of animals in motion, especially some of the larger animals around the Jackson Hole area. I was driving into Jackson, Wyoming on a particularly foggy day and noticed a number of bull elks standing in the fog. As soon as I stepped out of my car they began running parallel to the road giving me some great shots of them in movement. They only ran about 200 yards, but it was plenty for me to get what I wanted!
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we did a christmas trip to Yosemite, so of course there was a stop at tunnel view. A storm was moving in, leading to really grey skies but some interesting clouds against the rocks. This was the best of the shots up there (but I seem to have a fondness for the three brothers www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/2518929553); overnight we got a couple of inches of snow and by the time we got moving, the roads had been plowed and conditions were wonderful for photography again, leading to some of my better work in the park.
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Nothing as stunning as whats been posted already but for me it was an opportunity to make something out of nothing. I had the itch to shoot and it had been rainy for several days if I recall correctly. I ended taking this as it was one of my first images to really play with out of focus lights. It was shot thru a bus shack window with oncoming traffic shining thru.
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I recently visited the Lick Observatory on top of Mt Hamilton while on a business trip in San Jose, CA. It was my first time in the Diablo Mountain range. The trip up the mountain skinny roads with no guard rails was very nerve racking! Then it started to rain and I drove through a few minor mudslides. On my way down, I captured this image of the rainstorm as it passed over the near by mountains. It was an incredible experience and I can't wait to do it again! `,-)
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I try to spend time walking around south Osaka when I can. I prefer rain to sunshine for city walks. Dull grey streets become glittering and beautiful as they reflect the streetlights and shop windows. This was just off Shinsaibashi, one of the main shopping streets in Osaka, and the rain had been hard enough that nobody walked outside if they could help it. As it let up, the streets slowly started filling with people, wary that it might start pouring down again any minute.
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I planned a day-trip to photo a major castle here in Ireland. Unfortunately the whole county seemed to be covered in a thick fog. It was too thick to get any kind of decent shot of the castle, but I did stop and snap this in a small village on the way.
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I had watched a dramatic sunrise along the coast in Point Reyes National Seashore with a nice mix of clouds on the horizon and clear skies above, but as I drove out of the park I saw a really thick fog layer over Tomales Bay (with blue sky above). I had never been into the state park there before, and figured this could be a really neat opportunity to explore the forests. After spending some time under the fog, it quickly started to burn off as that mid-morning sunshine came blasting through -- leaving traces in the last bit of moisture in the air.
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This is a very old shot indeed. I took it back in the mid 1980s for another competition on the subject of "Rain". It shows my little brother looking through our living room window with the curtains closed behind him. My other brother was pouring water from a watering can down the glass. It was shot with a Praktica MTL-3 on Ilford FP4.
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I had just returned home from sunny hot Rome, and it was cold and so foggy in San Francisco....I was a little bummed out, but tried to make the best of it by using the fog to get some different shots. It was such a heavy and wet fog, making getting a shot off before my camera was drenched quite a challenge!
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I've been photographing a local bobcat family ever since the kittens first appeared with their mother. In this photo, the young male is experiencing rain for the first time and he doesn't quite know what to do. He repeatedly licked his nose in a futile attempt to keep it dry. The mother was nearby, and had the good sense to huddle under a bush to stay dry.
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Captured this one at Elephant Falls in Dalat, Vietnam. It was super wet, we were standing right behind the falls here. Thank goodness for my guide, or I might have fallen to my death! He guided me over the slippery rocks with ease. It was amazing.
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We had a beautiful sunny day. Crystal clear blue skies, brisk breeze. Wonderful spring like weather, but just a bit chillier. Then the fog started to roll in...and MADE my day. I love fog. Absolutely love it! It's right up there with falling snow. The immense quiet that takes over is humbling. Instant meditation. You're senses become heightened and everything is in focus. In a forest like this, the trees become bigger and more intimate at the same time.
I wrote a little bit more about this image here.
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This is the Calgary, Alberta, Canada skyline as seen through a hazy ice fog over the Bow River. It was extremely cold (-30°C or -22 °F) when I made this image and the air was so dry that it was electric. The ice and snow crackled under my feet and my nostrils were frozen. These conditions are pretty hard on photographers and their gear, but sometimes that's what you get and you can either curl up in a blanket, or you can go get the shot!
This is a blended image of 5 exposures ranging from about 10 seconds to 3 minutes. I do a lot of exposure blending, but I try to keep it as real as possible. This one is about as surreal as I will go...
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Alishan, Taiwan used to be a big logging area in the early 20th century. They kept the small narrow gauge train that travels 86km at up to 6.2% grades and numerous switchbacks and turned it into one of Taiwan's top tourist destinations. Most people go for an amazing mountain sunrise, but when I was there it was just rain and mist.
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On Friday morning I was supposed to pick my parents from the airport at 5am so I woke up at 4:30 and made my way to the airport only to find out that their flight got diverted to Al Ain (a town in the UAE about 130km away from Dubai). This turned out into a 6 hour wait with my parents being stuck in the plane on the runway in Al Ain.
Since I was already awake that early I thought I’ll take my camera out and capture a bit of an unusual view of Dubai covered in thick fog. There weren’t many locations I could go to take some interesting photos when it’s that foggy, but then I remembered some cool photographs of the San Francisco Bay Bridge dissapearing into the fog and immediately Business Bay Bridge here in Dubai came to mind. This is shot from right under the bridge at about 6am and it’s an HDR made out of 7 exposures with a 1E.V. step between them. The sky and water are masked from the original -1E.V. exposure to reduce the amount of noise in the photograph.
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A lone oak bearing signs of life with a small set of spring leaves while coastal fog hits a speed bump and slowly crawls inland.
There is my shot at trying to sound poetic or close to some book narrator. I've been lurking around this mountain for a long time never really catching any extravagent light on it and the sky at the same time.
F13 30 secs for the crawl
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This is one of the few photos I preconceived. We got into Cade's Cove in the Smokies early, hopeful of fog. This buck obliged to some great poses and hung around until the fog burned off.
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I took this from a park in San Francisco a few years ago. It was bright and sunny in the park, but the bridge was surrounded by fog.
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I grew up in California's Central Valley, where fog is a common wintertime issue. Now I live in North Texas, and while fog is never as dense here as in the Valley, we occasionally get interesting fogs. I took this one day, using very expired Polaroid film, and was happy with this result; it reminds me a bit of my original home. I like the way the expired film emulsion blended with the fog to create something slightly otherworldly.
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There are some really stunning images in this collection. Thanks to everyone for sharing!
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chuqui [deleted] says:
yes, definitely!
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Captured just in time to join this amazing collection of images.
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I took this shot on a 10k Volkswalk in West Seattle, WA at Alki Beach.
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Shot this on a foggy morning after dropping the kids off for school.. had the image in my head and searched all over for the perfect tree... hard to do in dense fog. LOL
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We were on holiday at Paternoster on the South African west coast and I got up before dawn, hoping to get some nice sunrise shots. Sadly it was a misty morning and the sunrise wasn't visible so I spent some time shooting rocks through the mist. As I walked back down the beach towards our cottage I saw this white rainbow appear as the sun broke through the mist. I'd never seen anything like it before, nor have I since. Luckily I had my wide lens with me and was able to grab this shot of it before the sun strengthened and it disappeared. I learned later that these are known as fogbows and being able to capture this more than made up for the absence of a visible sunrise.
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I was bicycling through Morgan Territory on my way back to Livermore after biking to the top of Mt. Diablo. Suddenly the clouds dropped down and everything became dull and subdued (and cold!).
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Sorry late posting -- DC blizzard took its toll. Photo from Maryland State Cup semifinal game. Poured rain the entire game. Sharks win 1-0.
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