August 12, 2020 — Marin County Coast, California
It’s easier to have one’s head in the clouds if the clouds are at or only slightly above sea level. The California coast is famous for sea-level clouds in the summer. We locals call it fog.
(Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G VR. RAW processing and initial editing in DxO PhotoLab 3.3; Final editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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California based fine-art photographer featuring abstract, impressionist, and minimalist seascapes — near and distant — and floral-based images.
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We non-locals would call it fog also although we are inland distant. Another gentle view of the western coast. I’ve been watching this @hour long interview with Bruce Percy if you are interested. Very humble man.
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I very much admire Bruce Percy. I have done webinars with him. Will do more.
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I knew of your admiration which is why I shared the video link. Hope you enjoy it.
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And thank you very much. The coast was indeed gentle that day.
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…and I, from across the ocean, call it art. 🙂
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You’re fortunate to live in a region where fog is common, so you can often have your head in the clouds.
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Of course it can result in a foggy head.
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Your last two words made me think there must be a cape or promontory somewhere named Foggy Head, but I’ve searched and haven’t been able to turn one up.
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Foggy head would be on the East Coast. People on the West Coast who have foggy heads don’t normally advertise the fact. At least they don’t intentionally advertise the fact. You can usually tell.
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Foggy Bottom will have to do.
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Ugh
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I wasn’t recommending it although the Kennedy Center is cool…was there a few decades ago when my cousin read arts grant proposals. I’d much rather be standing out looking at the ocean somewhere called “Fog Head” and not listening to Foghat.
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A wonderfully calming image
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Thank you!
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Beautiful. Let fog roll in and envelop the sea. Love the muted sounds and the shroud of grey that comes with fog.
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Thank you very much! Yes, that’s what I like too. It gets softly quiet. The shot became what it is in post. I saw what I wanted when I took the shot but it wasn’t all there. Mother nature did the best she could to give me what I envisioned, but I had to take it the rest of the way in post.
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That foggy cloud (cloudy fog?) is such a hint out there – beautifully rendered, Michael! My eyes start playing tricks on me the same way they do in fog, where you start to see forms shifting around and disappearing.
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Thank you very much. That’s exactly what I was going for.
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I try to do pictures that look simple at first but keep on giving, the more one looks at them.
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That sounds ideal. 🙂
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I especially like the pool of light in the center, and the way the ‘bow’ of clouds is reflected in the water. It’s not as obvious as the phenomenon known as a fogbow, but the arc is lovely.
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Thank you very much. A lot of that happened in post. Wink.
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I’ve finally figured out that ‘post’ is an abbreviated version of ‘post processing.’ You’ve abstracted your language as well as your images! (I suppose that’s actually photographers’ jargon that I just didn’t know.)
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I’m sorry. I don’t like doing that to people. I thought this was fairly well understood but apparently it’s not that universal. Anyway, that is what it is.
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No matter. I suspect all of your readers are smart enough to figure out such mysteries! I’m going to the Urban Dictionary more often than you might imagine to figure out acronyms or new terms that I’ve never come across. I’m probably your most living-under-a-rock reader.
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Living-under-a-rock reader? Hardly. Your writing has open the doors for me that I didn’t even know were there.
If you decide to enter the realm of post processing, I strongly advise you to begin shooting all your photographs RAW. The menu system on your camera gives you the choice of shooting RAW, JPEG, or both. The JPEG that comes out of the camera is sort of like the print you get at the drugstore. RAW is more akin to the negative. You can do a lot more with it. But you have to “develop“ it. Most people use Adobe Lightroom. I use DxO PhotoLab. There’s a learning curve, but it is quite rewarding.
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