primordial soup

Saturday morning was pretty soupy in the Steele Creek area of the Buffalo, and while I was trying to locate fall foliage with hand-held radar, I was also keeping an eye out for the sun.

I like this one Randy, it does have a primordial look to the scenery. Nice job capturing the sun through the fog. Thanks for sharing!

Like so many of your photos, this one makes me feel like I was right there, and I wish I could stay. (Actually I was snoozing in a sleeping bag only a couple of hundred yards away that morning, but that's another story!)

I really like the mood here, Randy. Very nice composition, with the layers of fog revealing more and more branches as they get closer to the viewer. Sweet...

Did you get a chance to return to Richland Ck. this week? I'm wondering what it will look like this weekend.

Bill, I was back at Richland Creek yesterday morning. The color is still good, but there was a lot more of it on the ground than just three days earlier. I think there'll be plenty left this weekend, but it's falling fast. Here's one of the shots from yesterday:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6613610

I can see vague hints on my (crappy) monitor at work but I'm not sure if I'm imagining it or not. Is this a conversion?

You'll have to help me out, Jason. What do you mean by a conversion?

Hey Randy nice image of the fog. I hope you got some good ones of the color around steele creek also.

Randy - I think Jason was probably wondering if this was a B/W conversion. I could'nt see the color in the FG until I looked at it on a good monitor. On crappy monitors, it looks like a B/W conversion, which looks great too.

Thanks, Bill, now I've got a clue. It's a color image, Jason, but pretty severely underexposed to keep the sky from blowing out altogether, which drained most of the color out it. Even with a three-stop soft edge graduated ND filter this is the best I could do. On a couple of images that morning I even stacked a two and a three stop GND, but that doesn't work so well because a couple of my GNDs are heat warped from being left in the trunk of my car for a year or two (they're made of resin).

Say, John, were you actually snoozing, or had the kids got you up by then?

It was pretty chilly that morning. The 7-year old was in my sleeping bag with me, but the 11-year old was up making all kinds of noise building a fire and making hot chocolate to try to get warm. So no, maybe snoozing wasn't the right word!

dark but peaceful, very nice

Randy, what a nice little scene. It certainly reminds me of mornings on the river. Might have been a good HDR candidate to preserve some FG color, but it looks great as is and does take on a monochrome feel.

Well Done!