Down to the river. Crouch down to take a few pictures through the fog. Of course the best composition finds me in a quag of mud and leaves and my dog desperately trying to roll in a pellet of duck shit just beyond the reach of his leash.

A counterpoint to the serenity and silence presented.

Now the temptation here is to over-edit this photo: bring up the whites, add some highlights, make the ambience more ephemeral and clean…stuff like that. Just type ‘landscape in fog’ into Instagram and you will see what I mean.

Right now I’m more interested in capturing a more authentic representation of what I experienced. Of course, there is some artistic latitude here, there is a sprinkle of film grain simulation added, and I have cropped and tweaked things just a pinch.

My goal is to make a photo more like a poem and less like a pop song.