Slowlight Archive

Fog Studies

2017–202112 photographs

Not really a series so much as a habit. If the forecast said fog I would set an alarm, and over a few years the pictures piled up. Fog does most of the work: it removes everything you didn't want in the frame and leaves the shapes.

Long exposures where the light allowed it, handheld where it didn't.

Spruce tops above the cloud line.
01 Spruce tops above the cloud line.
Stone walls running down to a bay you could only just make out.
02 Stone walls running down to a bay you could only just make out.
The ridge disappearing about a third of the way up.
03 The ridge disappearing about a third of the way up.
From the lookout, before the sun burned it all off.
04 From the lookout, before the sun burned it all off.
A cabin in the frost. My hands stopped working shortly after this one.
05 A cabin in the frost. My hands stopped working shortly after this one.
Light coming through, in pieces.
06 Light coming through, in pieces.
A barn, a field, and the hills going grey behind them.
07 A barn, a field, and the hills going grey behind them.
Low cloud over the pasture. It was raining on the other side of the valley.
08 Low cloud over the pasture. It was raining on the other side of the valley.
The breakwater, with about forty metres of visibility.
09 The breakwater, with about forty metres of visibility.
A channel marker and nothing else. Four-minute exposure.
10 A channel marker and nothing else. Four-minute exposure.
The sun as a white coin through the pines.
11 The sun as a white coin through the pines.
The town from a hotel window, the morning I left.
12 The town from a hotel window, the morning I left.