Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Thoughts welcome. Taken at Pilot Mountain State Park on a very foggy

morning.

Lovely fall colors 6/5.

a truly beautiful card!

Beautiful and colorful composition!!

Nice image, but lack of sharpness detracts (handheld exposure?)

Yes, handheld in some very dim (DENSE fog) conditions.

very nice image and colour!!!!!

Simply fantastic!

Like the mood in this shot.

This is a great one, bravo!

Nice colours and light

Regina, a wonderful image. Great combination of colors and fog. . . makes me want to put my hiking boots on for the uphill trek. . .

Your unique eye is evident in this common theme. Nice.

Thanks so much everyone for the encouragement. My trip to Pilot Mt. was quite disappointing. The weather was drizzly and foggy. So... after driving for 2hrs, going all the way to the top of the mountain, there was absolutley NO view. The scenic overlook was non existant. A large bank of fog hid everything. I had to settle for lots of foggy shots like this one of the trail. Maybe next year...

You were in my neck of the woods. Sorry you didn't get what you wanted. I like the atmosphere of this shot though.

Nice work! Gorgeous!

Great color saturation . Nice work

Excellent autumnal shot, you can feel the wet foliage and moss in the fog. Congrats, Carsten

This is beautiful love the light .....I bet this was an exciting find.

Mystical path--glorious scene!

I love this shot. The hints of colors all over the page intermingled with the fog present a truly magical photo. Well done!!

Thanks to all for such positive feedback. Makes the disappointment I felt at not seeing past the fog all worth while.

Breathtakingly beautiful - the complementary colors of the warm colored leaves and the green vegetation work very well, as does the sharp foreground with the foggy background. As I look at it I am reminded of a phrase from Wm. Mortenson. I may misquote this but he said something like "A background just crying for a human form!" His work was in black and white but he had something like your picture and then photographed it again with a person properly placed for the composition. I can't help feeling this picture wants either a human form or a deer or other creature. Notice how the eyes start looking at the foreground and then look back into the deep background - my eyes are searching for something to be there! It feels like looking at a wondrous picture frame that has no picture.

Of course you could give this a philosophical title like "Looking to the future seasons" and give it a psychological sense of achievement.

Thanks so much for your interesting insight. Guess I think of the Photographer as human part of the photo. I often look at a photo and think...How did the photographer get that shot, what must he/she be feeling as they shoot it, were they cold, did they feel the dampness, could they smell the leaves etc etc.

 

Though there is no human form here, I hope that the viewer feels they are there, with the photogrpher, within the eyes of the photographer looking down the path wondering what's around that foggy bend.

 

You have given me some food for thought as I will remember your comments when I shoot this place again.

 

Thanks!