fleeting fog

 

This fog lasted only a few minutes before the sun broke through and promptly evaporated it.

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Evanescent

embracing the unknown

With regards to photography, sure I have goals: improve my technique, expand my artistic vision, blah, blah, blah… but I find if I’m too rigid about following a plan, or chase pre-conceived notions, my creativity can suffer. Whereas if I go with the flow and allow myself to be open to all possibilities, new ideas often blossom. So I prefer my horizon to be a little foggy (haha, see what I did there?).

Weekly Photo Challenge: New Horizon

the fog (2 images)

Mid-morning a few days ago a thick fog suddenly rolled in across the channel. It hung around for about an hour before disappearing as quickly as it had come.

foggy morning at Hope Bay

I’ve always been drawn to simplicity and minimalism in photography. I admire the spare beauty of images by photographers such as Michael Kenna and Michael Levin: deceptively simple compositions executed with a true artist’s eye.

Here is one of my attempts at a minimalist image.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Spare

lifting fog at Hope Bay

For such a small place, Pender Island can have amazingly diverse weather, especially at this time of year. The other morning I left my house under completely clear skies, only to find a huge fog bank drifting over the bay on the other side of the island.

fog bank

Looks like this is as close as we’ll be getting to a white Christmas. Happy holidays, everyone!

Fog bank at Medicine Beach, Pender Island, B.C.

sea of clouds

Living on an island means I am surrounded by the constant boundary of the ocean. It defines the contours of the land, separates me from the mainland, and sometimes at high tide cuts off access to certain areas. So it was yesterday morning, when I found that the shoreline I’d planned to use for the foreground of my photo was under water.

Oh well, I took this picture instead, which I’m not unhappy with. The fog was starting to dissipate, and lacking an anchoring foreground, the islet appears to be drifting off in a sea of clouds.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries

lookout

The crooked branch of an ancient Garry oak overlooks the fog-shrouded channel. I always find this view a bit vertigo-inducing.

mist on Magic Lake

fog 2

A second series of shots from that foggy Valentine’s Day morning.