Foggy Pond

Once again, I set my watch alarm for 4, this time being clever enough just to put it on vibrate, so as not to disturb Beloved's slumber. Since I don't hear so well, the vibrations probably worked better than if there were no vibrations at all and just volume. 

From what I could see through bleary eyes and rain-splattered windows, the sky was not particularly inviting. I put my head back on the pillow but was too awake to gain further repose, especially since I was still experiencing the siren call, so to speak.

I didn't have much of a plan, but when I realized just how foggy it was, I decided to head back to the pond. I am glad that I did.

I took five different compositions, but, back on the computer, I only liked two of them. This ↓ very subtle and subdued one was my second composition, which I cropped into a pano in edit. I actually processed it after my third composition, the shot below this one. 

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My favourite image is this ↓ one: a combination of two exposures. One exposure was for the whole scene, but in the other, I shone my headlamp on the foreground. This gave the foreground a bit of life rather than be almost black.

4:47:54

I grew about two inches during this shoot because my poor shoes picked up that much mud after the rainy night. The mud is a result of this is right beside a construction site, and I imagine that I will lose access to this pond at some point. I removed my shoes before getting into the car and tried to clean them off, at least a little, in a puddle outside the house when I got back home.