Morning Mist

Morning Mist, originally uploaded by Barbloke.

It is rare in the morning chaos that is our house to see such calm and beauty, today was that morning.

Natalie (my wife) was in the kitchen huridly preparing breakfast for our three kids (Luke 6, Daniel 4 and Mia 2) before heading off on the school run, there was the usual racket around the breakfast table as I desended the stairs from my office (another day working from home). Luke and Daniel told me excitidly that the gaden fence was on fire!

I looked out to see a curtain of mist rising up from the full six metre length of the garden fence, it drifted upward into the morning sky wafting back and forth in the breeze back lite by the sharp spring sun and dotted with the viberent green of early spring.

I turned on my heels and head for my desk and grabbed my D50, thankfully it was already fitted with my Nikkor 50mm f1.8 as i already knew what the final image would look like. I exited to the garden without thinking setting up my camera as i went it wasn't until I'd taken the first couple of shots that I realsised the ground under foot was aboslutly freezing and I had not shoes on.

I spent the next 15 minutes shooting rapidly before the sun moved and the moment was lost.

Great images come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected of places.

Thanks Luke and Daniel for letting me know about this one, thanks mother nature for creating it.