The Myth of Mostly Mist

Scary old beech tree in dense fog. I sometimes smile when I get emails in which the writer states that I am lucky because it is always foggy where I live. Of course this is as far from the truth as possible. I don't live in an area where we have mostly mist, but I do photograph in moments of mist. Sometimes I drive as far as I have to to find it, sometimes it means going up the mountain tens or hundreds of times, but it always means that perhaps 90 to 95 percent of the time I go somewhere and the conditions are not "perfect", but they are always perfect to practice in. There is never a moment wasted in the forest with a camera. On this day though, the snow had started to melt and as it was heating up quickly a dense fog started to build up. This tree is an amazing one which looked totally different from all angles and it gets more character every time I see him. From this angle and in these conditions it looks like a bit of a scary, yet friendly character. This was photographed in the midst of winter, yet the remaining autumn leaves adds the only bit of colour to this somewhat ghostly image.