Trees Standing in the Fog
This was taken in January while I was staying at Sky Camp with my brother and some friends. My brother and I woke up early with the goal of catching sunrise from the top of Mt. Wittenberg, but when we unzipped the door to the tent we were greeted by a wall of cold, damp fog. This was the kind of fog that makes you want to slide back into your warm sleeping bag, but good photographs are rarely taken from the comfort of one’s sleeping bag. So, knowing there was a slim chance the top of the mountain would be above the fog and we could watch the sun come up over a sea of white fog, we crawled out of the tent and hiked to the top. We didn’t get lucky. It was just as cold and damp on top as it was back at camp.
We wandered between the stands of trees, walking on the wet grass and listening to the intense silence. We were sharing the mountain top with a few groups of deer, including some white Fallow Deer that seemed to float in the mist. I was surprised at how much the fog accentuated the depth between the trees, and wanted to capture the feeling of depth.