Fog-na

Not so bright, and way too early Saturday morning I headed up to the Conway to try to get some sunrise shots of the Skagit Valley. I figured it would be the perfect spot to try out my new lens; I always wish that I could get closer to the mountains and wondered what the 300mm could do.

Well, it was foggy. And not the artistic "ooh it will add some morning mist" kind of fog... it was the pea soup kind! I figured I could try to find something interesting in the foreground and found this beautiful tree along the side of the road. I used my 18-55 mm on this one.

Then I kept driving. It was actually a nice way to start the day; a nice warm car, a delicious cup of coffee, exploring a pretty much deserted place. I rarely encountered other cars on the side roads and was able to capture these flooded fields while parked on the road.

Eerie

This is a view of one of the flooded fields. Isn't it eerie? You can't even tell where the horizon is. I used my new 70-300 for this one.

The Fence

This pic is from the same field. I liked the look of the fence and set my aperture at 4.0 to make it look like it was disappearing into the fog. I was impressed with how much I was able to fit in the frame...

Abstract 1 & 2

This piece of farm equipment caught my eye; it would have made a cool subject in the foreground of a sunrise picture... if it weren't so darn foggy. I took a pic anyway, just to test the powers of 300mm.

Then I had some fun with the editing of this pic. I pushed the contrast up as high as it would go. Normally, when I do this I end up with Andy Warhol-type pics, but the foggy skies actually worked in my favor this time. Instead of a bunch of extreme/bright colors, I had a sharp black & white.


Last Pic
My new lens is heavy. I was glad to see that the images I took with my camera on a tripod worked out, but I hoped I would still be able to get some hand-held shots. After my skagit valley expedition, I headed to my sister's house in A-town. I snapped this quick pic of one of their many, many vehicles. I set the ISO to 400, and used aperture priority at 4.0. It was a 1/125 of a second exposure.



The rest of the weekend was pretty hectic, so I don't have any other pics to share. Thank you for checking out my pictures! I hope that you are having a lovely day :)