Fog on Lake Calhoun - 25MAR04

Driving to work this morning I saw some beautiful eerie mist forming on Lake of the Isles, wished to gods I'd had my camera so I could pull over and get a shot of it. Looked like something a samovar-enshrouded woman would emerge from to gift you with a longsword +3, +5 vs. evil. As it was, driving home I saw the ice on Lake Calhoun was creating a tremendous welling bank of fog; I raced home, grabbed my camera, and drove back down to set up amid the joggers and curious passers-by. I saw the light was dimming but also the fog was spreading so I got as many decent shots as I could. Very excited about this, I've rarely experienced a good fog in Minnesota!

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A jogger prepares to run around the beach of a misty Lake Calhoun. Haze creeps up the far bank; buildings arise from the white fog.
You can just see the frozen shore on this side, and it looks like the fog overtakes the streets on the far side. Same shot, playing with black-and-white.
Dark trees line the jogging and bike paths, all the more ominous for the fog. Color shot from beach-level. You can get a sense of the thickness of the foggy layer over the water.
Dark shot of the beach and the jogging path. Everyone had to slow down and look at me. Same shot, sepia-tone.
Same shot, b/w. Just wanted to see how the effects would handle it. First self-portrait, one of the few pics to survive the cut.
Lowered the camera to two feet above the ground, stepped up closer for the picture. Same shot, no me: fog is seen croodling up the beach.
Wanted to get one more of me walking up, just in case the fog looked different. It doesn't. One of those cars in the distance was me, noticing this beautiful lake. Fragment of playground equipment, going back to the "dead kid" motif.
It's almost like the fog ate any kids who were playing here, or maybe their ghosts are coming out of the lake. Just liked the composition of this shot - no greater significance behind it.
Fog is really inundating the jogging path and beach now! Spooky! I like it! Same shot, sepia-toned. Guess I could make it grainy, try to antique it... naah.
Self-portrait using shutter-drag and the timer. I walked up when I saw the picture was about to go. Sepia-tone doesn't do anything either way for me. Just had to try one negative shot. Not impressed.
Same shot in color, just to show you what we were looking at here. Nightfall, and the fog surges upward, piling onto the bank relentlessly.
One color shot of the playground equipment, again, to compare and contrast.

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