Hugh Rawson 1/16/21 Hugh Rawson 1/16/21

Frost and Fog - A New Year's Day Tale

Shooting landscapes in frost and fog.

I can’t remember being so pleased to see the back end of a year like I did 2020. The New Year may not have brought the greatest of changes but there is hope - vaccines, testings and such. Regardless, the weather here played its part in a memorable start with freezing fog on the higher ground of the Surrey Hills. Welcome to Hascombe Hill.

I am most definitely a street photographer but any photography is better than no photography and, given that lockdown meant no visiting town and city streets, I enjoyed the chance to slow down and shoot some landscape images to start 2021.

The fog had really sucked the tonal range from the colour. I shot in RAW with the intention of processing in black and white to show the forms. However, there is something in the colour images which I also like. Which do you prefer?

Hugh Rawson 10/22/16 Hugh Rawson 10/22/16

Minor Diversions: No. 1

Okay so it's good to get out and shoot other things with the camera - it's all good practice (apparently). I'm sure it is.

Any road up, Sunday saw me and the hound high-tailing it to the nearest beach at West Wittering for the last rays of the day.

I'm definitely not used to the slow pace demands of tripods and filters, let alone wiping gack off the lens, but I think "having to" every so often is good for me. Or my soul.

These shots are the first in what will be an occasional series of, well, minor diversions.

Hope you like them.