fog:
noun
1 a thick cloud of water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth’s surface that obscures or restricts visibility
2 something that obscures and confuses a situation or someone’s thought processes
3 a 1980 horror film by John Carpenter, partially shot in Point Reyes, California.
(dictionary credit to the New Oxford American Dictionary embedded in my Mac)
The fog is everywhere and nowhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’m not going to study it and lay out the timetables and scientific basis for it—why it’s some places and not others. I only get to spend a significant amount of time in it about once a year, so I’d like for it to keep me on my toes.
It doesn’t come in on little cat feet for me, as it did for Sandburg. No, it appears out of nowhere and makes an inexorable and glacial excursion across the land, like an immense down duvet sliding down the hills and then stopping, inviting speculation and obscuring everything beyond.
Cypress tunnel approach to the RCA/Marconi Radio Station at “G” Ranch, Point Reyes, California. Plus-X at EI100, Rodinal 1+50 13 minutes, Leica M4 and 35mm Summicron.
I wanted to take the above photograph last year. Read more…
Film + Developer, Landscape, Process
Bay Area, California, EI100, fog, ISO100, Leica, M4, Plus-X, Point Reyes, Pt. Reyes, Rodinal, Summicron
David Shoots Film 