This morning, a gift was delivered to me that I gobbled up like a hungry bear. With the rainy weather we had last night and all day yesterday, the ground was saturated with moisture ad the temps got a bit cooler this morning than it was the day before. That created a pretty thick fog that lay over the town today like a blanket. Therefore, my subject was going to be pretty clear to me. A couple of spots here in Monroe make great backdrops for fog photographs and I tried to get to them as quickly as I could after dropping off my daughter at school. This is at the train tracks leading out of town and I was fortunate enough that the fog had not yet lifted when I got there. While not a soupy, thick fog that I love to shoot, this one still enabled me to paint a picture of what the mind thinks lies beyond it. I thought back to a scene in my head when I was doing a Civil War reenactment at Shiloh National Military Park earlier this year. A film studio was shooting a movie there that I was a part of, and the scene was that of soldiers emerging through the thick smoke of cannon fire. I watched as it unfolded and the smoke was so thick, you couldn't see your hand in front of you. As the director yelled "action", I watched in eerily silence when all of a sudden, the shadows began to take shape in front of me as the profiles of the soldiers came into view. The steely, blue color of this fog makes it just as mysterious as that scene and relates well to the month of October as the fright season is upon us.
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