It doesn’t happen often, but every once in awhile, I get the opportunity to go out and photograph, unfettered by job or child or worry. Free to focus on whatever I find, I can slowly suss out themes, motifs, and pay keener attention to the subtle changes of the landscape. For a normally extroverted person, this is probably my most extreme introspection and meditation; even as I am looking outwards and recording the natural world, I am tinting it with the perspective of my inner world, coloring it with the palette of my soul. Today was such a day, as I pursued fog and shifting clouds and changing light, until I came up with a set of photos I’m quite happy with. The previous night I’d hoped to get out and shoot some more star-filled skies, as a front had come through and pushed all the clouds away, leaving an inky blanket punctuated by a brilliant nearly full moon and pin pricks of sparkling stars. Unfortunately, by the time I’d closed up shop and driven out to a dark spot, the fog had descended fully. For every successful outing, there are often several like these, where I go to a promising spot only to find that conditions have changed, or persisted in the wrong way. This doesn’t keep me from trying, though, as it is these sort of changeable conditions that can create the best light and atmosphere……

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