Photography has been my escape for awhile now. I need a reason to get out of the house and just waste some time and relax, I grab my camera and hit the road. The road doesn’t have to be far away, it can simply be a back road near my town, gravel or pavement. It doesn’t matter much, I just want to shoot and so I drive until I see something interesting. Now there is one thing that makes it much easier to get images that please me, at least in the morning.

That one thing is fog or a mist from a windy rain. You know, moody shots some would say. Last week, Friday to be exact it wasn’ a morning drive to get out of the house, but a morning drive to work. I get to work around 7am every morning but don’t have to be there until 8. With that much room of time, on Friday’s I find myself more motivated to find photos to take on my drive. I drive a back road all the way to work that is surrounded by fields, cattle, horses and the occasional pond. The fog rolls off of the crops, over the fields and hover over the water ways and ponds. Leading up to this, there were 3 consecutive days of fog filling this pasture of cattle and the sun would hit them from the east and gave a really cool effect so Friday came and I set out to capture that image but some things changes that morning. The clouds were settled in and the sun wasn’t coming through like it had be but the fog was all there. Passing that cattle and the shot wasn’t there, they had moved to the back of the property away from the road, so I kept going.

Heading down the road, you cross over a couple creeks and they usually have a good amount of fog building up over them which creates a cool image in my head but stopping on the bridge to get the shot really isn’t smart, so I don’t stop but I do see a shot coming up of this big tree in a foggy field right past the creek crossing.

I would say, I got a decent shot from the mix of images I got off before they ran. I had some shots of them running but with it being early, my shutter was too slow for the run and jumping so those came out with some motion blur. I really love how this morning went as you can see. Within a 5 mile stretch of road I had captured the tree, the cow and these deer and now hoping to see the field with the horses in the fog.

The horse field is right off of a big creek bridge so the fog is usually pretty dense in this area so I had some high hopes. I pull up to turn so I can see the field and the horses were not out yet. I had never gone by in the morning. I usually see them at 5pm when I am heading home because my route home is different than my route to work, due to traffic. I had one image to take that really caught my eye though. The fog was setting in, the sun hasn’t came out yet and a tree sat alone, framed by two bigger trees just off of the road.

Now picture this. A horse or a couple horses mixed into this shot, with the mist and fog. Wow, I would have been pumped to get that image but this is the one that I got. I really like these images which is why I am writing a blog post for them! Fog alone makes many things look better or more appealing but back road driving with my camera in the passenger seat is the best way to start a day or just get away when you need a break.

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