Challenge #228 -- Fog, Mist and Mystery *****

bathgate · May 29, 2016

Special thanks to VitoDigital for the list of all the previous challenges which he posted to the results thread from the previous challenge. That's quite a list and points to all of the amazing creativity that has been found on this forum for so long.

This challenge calls for creating an image around fog, mists and mystery. When considering this challenge, I realized that not everybody lives somewhere where fog is common, hence the inclusion of mystery. Fog and mist often creates a sense of mystery but that sense also can be created through dynamic tension and other compositional and photographic elements. I look forward to seeing what people bring to this. While the aim is to urge participants to shoot new images for the challenge, images from everybody's back catalog also are permitted.

Note that while fog and mist often lend themselves to black and white photography, color images are just as welcome.

BE SURE to rename the subject line with the TITLE of your entry.
REMEMBER TO REPLY TO THE FIRST POST OF THIS THREAD
Photos must be taken with a Nikon camera.
There are no restrictions on post processing.
The host chooses the winning image.
The winner chooses the next topic and runs the next challenge.
Feel free to comment (In a positive way... be polite) on the images.
Challenge ends 11:59 p.m., June 17, 2016 CST
Enjoy!

A few examples:

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Michael

Michael Seldin

I'm an amateur photographer living along the central California coast.

infinitemonkeyphotography.smugmug.com

Rudy Pohl · May 29, 2016

Sorry but the EXIF data got stripped off. This scene was shot with a Nikon D7100 and a Nikon 300/F4 ED lens.

I shot it with my wildlife lens because I didn't have a wide angle lens with me at the time. I had been on my way to photograph water birds at a local nature reserve and was so smitten by this sunrise scene with the mist still on the unplowed fields in the early Spring that I had to stop and try to capture this, even with my telephoto. The upside of using a telephoto is that you get a nice big sun so I'm not complaining.
Rudy

Dark and blurry · May 29, 2016

Ocean fog on Mt Tamalpais near San Francisco.

D7100, 16mm, 1/200sec, f/5, iso800

Bob in Baltimore · May 29, 2016

Early one morning I was shooting these nice sail boats in the fog in Bar Harbor, Maine when the fog lifted a bit and there was this gargantuan cruise ship, looking for all the world like something Steven Spielberg might have imagined.

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Bob in Baltimore

Matwal · May 29, 2016

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/135415196@N05/

Damnerd · May 29, 2016

U.S. Army Corp of Engineers dredger Yaquina in afternoon mist

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Don M
peering from my lookout,
focusing my prism,
from the land of Nod,
to the very edge of Eden....

JEO126 · May 30, 2016

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John Owen

Explore John Owen’s 3,905 photos on Flickr!

www.flickr.com

I Beam · May 30, 2016

This is a 15th century Hindu temple in central Java, Indonesia. Candi means temple.

Regards

Paul

Bobthearch · May 30, 2016

How mysterious was this fog? So mysterious that I've not been able to relocate this place even though it was less than 2 miles from vehicle access. I'm not even sure which canyon I walked up - it was too thick to see any landmarks.