Any fog chasers?

[Joel Wright]

Dean, those are some fantastic shots! Absolutely incredible! Like others above have said, the glowing lights from the city make for a beautiful picture. It's almost as if the town is under water. (Well, I guess it sort of is in a way lol).

Also, very interesting how clear it is above the fog. Visibility is very sharp. Damn!

 

[Verne Carlson]

This is a shot from my house last September. We get a few of these days every fall and winter when the fog rolls up against the foothills of Colorado and turns the front range mountains into 'islands'. That's Boulder beyond the mountain in the center and Denver is off to the right.

 

[Marko Korosec]

Incredible images, Dean! Those city lights below the low cloudiness are absolutelly sweet!

I am also taking shots especially during the fall/winter months around here when low cloudiness often comes from the sea...this is probably my fave shot from above...it reminds me of "Mordor" from LOTR...

Here are some other pages from several events:

http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=153
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=155
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=69
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=68

And a similar shot to that one George posted above:

 

[Charles Kuster]

Nice pics!! I have not chased fog before and generally don't like being in it. I did see some nice fog while living up in the mountains, especially while climbing Mt. Elbert. I never thought about taking pics of it though. Might have to try that some time!

 

[John Farley]

How 'bout some fog chasing on skis? Pajarito, NM, last January:

 

[Skip Talbot]

I never thought about "chasing" fog, however, I did have a photogenic encounter with it. I was at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL. There was a thick pea soup fog and I was riding the Eagle, an old, rickety wooden coaster, but very tall. Just as the coaster crested the top we broke through the fog and there was a blue vault overhead and a white blanket extending out in every direction to the horizon. The only other object that broke the fog was the Raging Bull, a taller coaster. The coaster paused just long enough at the top of the crest for all of us to exclaim woooow, and then it plunged us back into the fog. Of course I wasn't hanging onto my camera in the middle of a roller coaster ride, but getting that one coaster rail breaking a perfect sea of white and blue would have been a great shot.

 

[Dean Gill]

Dean, those are some fantastic shots! Absolutely incredible! Like others above have said, the glowing lights from the city make for a beautiful picture. It's almost as if the town is under water. (Well, I guess it sort of is in a way lol).

Also, very interesting how clear it is above the fog. Visibility is very sharp. Damn!

Thank You for your comments.
Yeah, the visibility is almost always excellent above the fog surface. This is due to the fact that foggy conditions generally occure in anticyclones with strong subsidence drying out the air. Only near the ground remains a pool of cold and humid air. During the autumn/winter, these conditions can last for weeks, making the weather in Geneva very unpleasant with little or no sun at all. Note that while in Geneva the weather is cold, humid and grey, very mild conditions prevail over the moutains just above the strong inversion with temperatures from 10 to 15°C higher than in the Geneva bassin. On one case, I remember leaving Geneva with freezing fog and -3°C and arriving up the Salève (8km from Geneva) with a temperature of 12°C!

 

[Mark Manchester]

Mike,

Waubonsie State Park outside of Sidney, IA along Highway 2 has a great lookout over the Missouri Valley, although you're about 7 miles from the river. I haven't taken any photos up there in years but it's a terrific view.

 

[Dean Gill]

Incredible images, Dean! Those city lights below the low cloudiness are absolutelly sweet!

I am also taking shots especially during the fall/winter months around here when low cloudiness often comes from the sea...this is probably my fave shot from above...it reminds me of "Mordor" from LOTR...

Thanks Marko, and congratulations for all your work!
Your pics are absolutely outstanding (as usual!)
BTW, from 10 to 14 Sept I'll be in Trieste for the ECSS not far from your hometown...

 

[Marko Korosec]

Thanks Marko, and congratulations for all your work!
Your pics are absolutely outstanding (as usual!)
BTW, from 10 to 14 Sept I'll be in Trieste for the ECSS not far from your hometown...

Thanks and then see you in Trieste! I am there as well.

Could you write down the equipment you use for photography?

 

[Joel Wright]

...I was at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL. There was a thick pea soup fog and I was riding the Eagle, an old, rickety wooden coaster, but very tall......

Ahh the ol' Eagle. That had to be an interesting ride.

Another interesting vantage point that day would have been from "The Big Drop." That's the ride that takes you up a few hundred feet, pauses, and then drops you straight down. (One hell of a rush). During the 5-10 second pause, some great photos from that vantage point could have been taken as well.

 

[Oscar van der Velde]

Beautiful photos in this thread. It certainly pays to be at an elevated vantage point!

Some of mine, taken in the Netherlands:
http://www.lightningwizard.com/showphoto.php?photoid=408
http://www.lightningwizard.com/showphoto.php?photoid=173
http://www.lightningwizard.com/showphoto.php?photoid=478

and also steam over water makes nice pictures:
http://www.lightningwizard.com/showphoto.php?photoid=252 (KNMI weather radar in background)
http://www.lightningwizard.com/showphoto.php?photoid=178

Oscar

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Sweet Oscar, especially that first one. It's cool to see the different colored city lights all in the same scene like that.

I got this one this morning with the geese being friendly enough to fly through the shot out there. I really need to learn how to forecast fog better. I thought for sure this morning would be even thicker than the other day. I set my alarm for 3 hours after I went to bed, so I could get the moon shining ontop of fog before sunrise. Well there was hardly any fog anywhere, even with similar surface temps as last time, and with brand new heavy rain in the area(*shrugs*). The only place that had much was the wild life refuge and lake/river. It's nice to have a reason to wake up early, even if it's after 3 hours of sleep. I hope tomorrow morning will be better and I suspect it will with such calm surface winds to start this night off, and the high settling/stretching sw some. Temps have a good distance to go yet though and seem a bit warmer than last night at this time.