En route . . .

Greetings from lovely downtown Anderson, California (just south of Redding). This morning, while stopped for road construction in Oregon, I loved how the fog was slanting down through the trees, so photographed this scene through the car window.

It's interesting observing the driving styles. In Oregon, we think Washingtonians drive like idiots. Guess what? Washingtonians drive like idiots in California, too! ©Carol Leigh

Experiment

It was a foggy day here on the Oregon coast. I had to make a quick trip to the grocery store and on the way back stopped at an overlook to see what the Alsea Bay Bridge looked like in the mist. I'm looking south, shooting from the west side of the bridge as it sweeps away from me, across the bay. It's low tide and a sand spit is revealed in the lower right corner.

This is a tiny extract from a much larger image. It was foggy, what can I do to accentuate the foggy look? What if I crop away everything except this one little section of the shot? Yes, it'll be grainy/noisy, but that's sort of the nature of fog. I turned it into a black and white (again, that's the nature of fog) and then softened the image slightly.

Does it work? Nah, I don't think so, but it's not awful! About 20 years ago I saw the work of a photographer who would photograph architectural detail on buildings, then crop the heck out of the shot, leaving a very grainy, soft image of just one little detail. Toned with a sepia tint, her photos were lovely. Hmmmm . . . another thing for me to try in the near future. ©Carol Leigh

A walk around the block . . .

It was a foggy morning but Tracy's Fuji cherry tree looked pretty good in full bloom. ©Carol Leigh